...turns again, too, it will be noticed, instantly after, to the more personal attributes of Shakspcarc. " He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he ßowfd with that facility tftat sometimes...

...excite no surprise. " I loved the man," says Jonson, with a noble burst of enthusiasm, " and do honour for policy : For she's not froward, but modest as...dove ; She is not hot, but temperate as the morn ; ;" and Rowe, repeating the uncontradicted rumour of times past, has told us, " that every one, who...

...pages much more of a similar nature might be adduced. " I loved," he says in his ' Discoveries,' " I loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this...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....

...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...

...candour, for 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 fancy, brave notions, and gentle expres" sions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that some- j...

...friendship, can 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...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...

...remembrance of unusual kindness induced him to write of Shakspere, " 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 ?" We have no hesitation in abiding by the common sense of Gifford, who treated with ineffable scorn...

...excite no surprise. "I loved the man," says Jonson, with a noble burst of enthusiasm, "and do honour es) t蕆 ;" and Rowe, repeating the unconlradicted rumour of times past, has told us, — " that every one,...

...as well as a sterling writer) declares, " I do love the man and honour his memory, on this side of idolatry, as much as any : he was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature;" and the editors of the folio edition of the plays, say that they have collected them " to keep the...

...friendship, can 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...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...