 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...Ford, was to write an epigram on him as a plagiary. " Playwright, by chance, heaving to\s Ihadiori(t " Cry'd to my face — they were th' elixir of wit....believe him, for to-day <( Five of my jests, then .-.loin, pass'd him a play." Alludin* to a character in the Ladies Trial, which Ben says ford stole... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...took against ford, was to write an epigram on him as a plagiary. " Playivright, by chance, hearing toys I had writ, " Cry'd to my face — they were...now believe him, for to-day "Five of my jests, then stoln, pass'd him a play." alluding to a character in The Ladies Trial, which Ben says Ford stole from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...epigram en him as a plagiary. " Playwright, by chance, hearing toyt I had writ, " Cry'd to my face—they were th' elixir of wit. " And I must now believe him, for to-day "Five of my jests, then stoln, pass'd him a play." alluding to a character in The Ladies Trial, which Ben says Ford stole from... | |
 | John Ford - 1811 - 522 pages
...as a plagiary. * Playwright, by chance, hearing toys I had writ, Cry'd to my face— they were the elixir of wit. And I must now believe him, for to-day Five of my jests, .then stol'n, pass'd him a play.' Alluding to a character in The Lady's Trial, which Ben says Ford stole... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1812 - 506 pages
...Ford) by chance, hearing some toys I had writ, Cry'd to my face, they were th' elixir of wit, And 1 must now believe him ; for to-day Five of my jests,...for the first time at the Cockpit Theatre in May, 1038, on the 3d of which month it was licensed by the master of the revels : the epigram on ' Playwright'... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 444 pages
...having stolen a character in this play from him. " Playwright (i. e- Ford), by chance, hearing tys 1 had writ, " Cry'd to my face, they were th' elixir...Five of my jests, then stolen, pass'd him a play." 10. THE LAPLJ. Entertain-* znent of Music, altered from Prior LAD {by Charles Dibdin]. Svo. 17/3. One... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...BiograpAia Dramatka) to have been written on the appearance of Ford's Ladies' Trial. " Ben Jonson (he . And I must now believe him ; for to-day, Five of my jests, then stolen, past him a play CI. INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER. To-night, grave sir, both my poor house and I Do equally... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pages
...to write an epigram on him as a plagiary. 1* Playwright, by chance, hearing toys I had tent, " Cry d to my face — they were th" elixir of wit. " And...now believe him, for to-day " Five of my jests, then stoln, pass'd him a play." alluding to a character in The Ladies Trial, which Ben says Ford stole from... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...competitor : " Playwright, by chance, hearing some toys I had writ, " Cry'd to my face, they were the elixir of wit ; " And I must now believe him, for to-day " Five of my jests, then stolne, pass'd him a play." This epigram, I own, is so much in the manner of the time, and particularly... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pages
...Play-wright," may be taken as an example (Ep. 100) : Play-wright. by chance, hearing some toys I'd writ, Cried to my face, they were th' elixir of wit ; And I must...believe him ; for, to-day, Five of my jests, then stol'n, past him a 1'lay. But it is upon his monumental inscriptions that Jonson's fame as an Epigrammatist... | |
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To-night, grave sir, both my poor house and I Do equally desire your company : Not that we think us worthy such a guest, But that your worth will dignify our feast... 
