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Sidney Lee
8 quotes
“a purely literal interpretation of the impassioned protestations of affection for a "lovely boy", which course through the sonnets, casts a slur on the dignity of the poet's name which scarcely bears discussion”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) first seen 1609 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Facsimile of the First Edition 1609, ed. S. Lee, 1905
“I believe that the luxuriance of Shakespeare's dramatic instinct largely dominates that outburst of lyric melody which gives the Sonnets their life.”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Impersonal Aspect of Shakespeare's Art" (English Association Leaflet, 13, July 1909)
“Every great national literature is a fruit of much foreign sustenance and refreshment, however capable the national spirit may prove of mastering the foreign element.”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) first seen 1910 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The French Renaissance in England" (1910), Preface
“Discriminating brevity is a law of the right biographic method.”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) first seen 1911 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Principles of Biography", 1911
“Reading is a wrestling with ideas greater than any we can create for ourselves. It has been said, a little extravagantly, that reading can get the better of most physical sufferings, all indeed save the pangs of hunger.”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Place of English Literature in the Modern University" (1913)
“He had a splendid appetite at all times, and never toyed with his food”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of King Edward VII; "King Edward VII: a Biography", vol.2 (1927) p. 408
“Shakespeare's relations with men and women of the court involved him at the outset in emotional conflicts, which form the subject-matter of his 'Sonnets'”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Shakespeare avows, although in phraseology that is often cryptic, the experiences of his own heart”
Sidney Lee (1859–1926) said by 1926 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source