 | Thomas Howell - 1867 - 72 pages
...Jonson terms him " my beloved master," " my gentle Shakespeare," " sweet swan of Avon," and says, " I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this...was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature, worthy, gentle, and beloved." These epithets are confirmed by his writings, and they in return justify... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 538 pages
...ignorance, who chase that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and so justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and...free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, ami gentle expressions, Wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 672 pages
...malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted...his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.' * Still more in point ai-e Boccaccio's excellent words •with regard to Dante himself. 'Assuredly... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 420 pages
...malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted,...and of an open, and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometime... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - Fiction - 1988 - 704 pages
...malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted;...idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of open and full nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted. And to justify mine own candour, for I lov'd the man, and do honour his memory, on this side Idolatry,...honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometime... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...essayist Shakespeare is the sexiest great writer in the language. AL Rowse (b. 1903) British academic For I loved the man and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. Ben Jonson (1573-1637) English dramatist, poet I am more easily bored with Shakespeare and have suffered... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 pages
...and matter, apparently a selection of Jonson's notebooks partly prepared for publication, he writes: 'I loved the man, and do honour his memory (on this...honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometime... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted....any), he was indeed honest, and of an open and free namre, had an excellence Fancy, brave notions and gende expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility... | |
 | Robert Nye - Fiction - 1999 - 428 pages
...pressing problem that requires to be solved. 195 the mirth, the sheer abundance. For (as Mr Jonson said) I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was always very gentle, delicate, and polite. 'Sweet Mr Shakespeare' - several said that. And they were... | |
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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... 
