...spent some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit and good-nature engag'd him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of the neighborhood. . . . He dy'd in the 53d year of his age, and was bury'd on the north side of the chancel, in the great...

...in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. . . . His pleasurable wit and good-nature engaged him in the acquaintance and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood." Amongst his acquaintances was John Combe, who, dying in 1614, left him a legacy of...

...but the truth of Rowe's assertion is not to be doubted, that " his pleasurable wit and good-nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood."* An anecdote which appears to refer to this period of the poet's life, is related by...

...theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the society of his friends," and he adds what cannot be doubted, that " his pleasurable wit and good nature engaged...entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood." He is assumed to have been of a lively and companionable disposition ; and his long...

...may be, in some retirement, and the conversation of his friends. His pleasurable wit and good-nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood." In March 1616, the month after the marriage of his younger daughter, he became ill,...

...some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit, and good nature, engag'd him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood. Amongst them, it is a story almost still remember'd in that country, that he had a particular...

...some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit, and good nature, engag'd him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood. Amongst them, it is a story almost still remember'd in that country, that he had a particular...

...simple village folk. Rowe, the poet's first biographer, says that " his pleasurable wit and good-nature engaged him in the acquaintance and entitled him to...the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighborhood " — which reminds one how Shakespeare was honored by being permitted to march into London with King...

...spent some years before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit and good nature engag'd him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood. . . . He had three daughters, of which two liv'd to be marry'd ; Judith, the elder,...

...spent some days before his death at his native Stratford. His pleasurable wit and good nature engag'd him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship of the gentlemen in the neighbourhood." AFTER twelve or more busy years, Shakespeare in 1605 is not heard of as actor...