Читать книгу The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831 - Various - Страница 2
EXETER HALL, STRAND
WILLS OF SHAKSPEARE, MILTON AND BUONAPARTE
Оглавление(To the Editor.)
The last wills and testaments of the three greatest men of modern ages are tied up in one sheet of foolscap, and may be seen together at Doctors Commons. In the will of the "Bard of Avon" is an interlineation in his own handwriting—"I give unto my wife my brown best bed, with the furniture." It is proved by William Byrde, 22nd July, 1616.
The will of the Minstrel of Paradise is a nuncupative one taken by his daughter, the great poet being blind.
The will of Napoleon, to whom future ages, in spite of legitimacy, will confirm the epithet "le grand," is signed in a bold style of handwriting; the codicil, on the contrary, written shortly before his death, exhibits the then weak state of his body.
T.H.K
