 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...not told posterity this, but " for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to com" mend their friend by, wherein he most faulted: and to " justify...his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. " He~was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature, • " had an excellent fancy, brave notions,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Benjamin Humphrey Smart - 1839 - 490 pages
...contemporary, Ben Jonson, writing of him after his death, says, that "he loved the man, and honoured his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was indeed honest; of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions." Thus much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 608 pages
...nature might be adduced. " I loved," he says in his ' Discoveries,' " I loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions," &c. &c.... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own...his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any." dred and forty-six lines, took from his life eleven months to write it, and three years to revise it... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 376 pages
...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own...his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any." dred and forty-six lines, took from his life eleven months to write it, and three years to revise it... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to cammend their friend, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own...I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this sidu idolatry, as much as any." dred and forty-six lines, took from his life eleven months to write... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...excite no surprise. ' I loved the man,' says Jonson, with a noble burst of enthusiasm, ' and do honor his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He...was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature.' ' My gentle Shakspeare ' is the language of the same great man, in his poem to the memory of our bard... | |
 | Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) - 1842 - 104 pages
...Shakespeare, and what he hath left us," or in that touching passage of his " Discoveries," where he says, " I LOVED THE MAN, AND DO HONOUR HIS MEMORY, ON THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, AS MUCH AS ANY." DAVID LAING. SIGNET LIBRARY, EDINBURGH. BEN JONSON'S CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN.... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Drummond - 1842 - 96 pages
...Shakespeare, and what he hath left us," or in that touching passage of his " Discoveries," where he says, " I LOVED THE MAN, AND DO HONOUR HIS MEMORY, ON THIS SIDE IDOLATRY, AS MUCH AS ANY." DAVID LAING. SIGNET LIBRARY, EDINBURGH. BEN JONSON'S CONVERSATIONS WITH WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHOKNDEN.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...we not believe that some deep remembrance of unusual kindness induced him to write of Shakspere, " I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this...was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ?" We have no hesitation in abiding by the common sense of Gifford, who treated with ineffable scorn... | |
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I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions... 
