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If this works, it's one of the most useful sites ever.

Search for anything in Shakespeare. Anything.

Date: 2006-09-19 08:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jkluge.livejournal.com
Isn't this line from Shakespeare: "if ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"?

Date: 2006-09-19 10:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Good one! How about: "a little learning is a dangerous thing?" Oops, no, that's Pope.

Date: 2006-09-19 11:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jkluge.livejournal.com
Well, actually, I'm not sure, that's why I was asking, because nothing like it showed up on that search site, with several permutations and single words from the quote put into the search function.

But I thought I remembered Suzan saying it was from Shakespeare.

Date: 2006-09-20 12:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
It does sound like Shakespeare - I was taking it for granted that it was. But it isn't. It's Thomas Gray! "On a Distant Prospect of Eton College."

That'll teach me to make assumptions. Shakespeare did say just about everything else.



Date: 2006-09-20 01:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jkluge.livejournal.com
Thank you for finding it!

Date: 2006-09-20 01:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
You're welcome. I'm embarrassed I didn't know. Not that I think I should expect myself to know every word of Shakespeare - I don't - but I should know better than to just jump to conclusions.

Date: 2006-09-20 03:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jkluge.livejournal.com
Oh, well, jumping to conclusions is sometimes the best exercise we get all day, right? ;-)

And, of course, I asked *you* because I figure you know far more Shakespeare than I ever will. And you clearly were able to find the correct origin of the quote -- my searches were unsuccessful in the extreme. (I tried searching Google, too, got bupkis.)

Date: 2006-09-20 05:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fajrdrako.livejournal.com
Jumping to conclusions, yup, it keeps me fit!

I think I am living proof that loving Shakespeare and knowing Shakespeare are not exactly the same thing. On the other hand, his output was so great that unless a person is a scholar of Tudor literature or an actor.

And quite frankly, Thomas Gray is not a name who springs to my mind, even when I'm thinking of writers of his century. I barely know who he was. And if/when I have this conversation again, I'll probably still have to look him up.

Date: 2006-09-20 12:08 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] rosiespark.livejournal.com
Nifty! I tested it with "Prester John" and got the quote I had in mind from Much Ado...

BTW, did the Eccleston discs ever get there? Because there's another package in the mail since last week - the Lindsay/Lunghi Much Ado, the Sam West Peter Pan audio and tonnes of other stuff. :)

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