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" To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much. "
The Cabinet: Or, Monthly Report of Polite Literature - Page 166
1808
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Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick

Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 pages
...draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise : For...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's ..., Volume 1

Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 598 pages
...Shakspeare (his friend but also his rival) when in the abovementioned eulogy he says : ' I confess thy writings to be such as neither man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage ;' and again when he calls him the ' soul of the age ! the applause...
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Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with ...

Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 460 pages
...proof against them, and, indeed, Above the ill fortune of them, or the need. I, therefore, will begin :—Soul of the age ! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespeare, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little...
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Carleton's Hand-book of Popular Quotations

1877 - 362 pages
...Then you have an immeuse pleasure to come. J. TOWNLEY, 1778, High Life below Stairs, act ii so. 1. — Soul of the age ! The applause ! delight ! the wonder of our stage ! My SHAKESPERE, rise ! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Speuser, or bid lieaumont lie A little...
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Origin, Progress and Destiny of the English Language and Literature

John Adam Weisse - 1878 - 828 pages
...draw no enyy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; White I confess thy writings to be such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much." Had there been the least suspicion of the kind, would Jonson, who died 1637, have allowed the above...
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The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson

Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - 1878 - 576 pages
...To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For...
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The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Volumes 1-2

William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 pages
...draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For...
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Shakspeare and His Contemporaries: Together with the Plots of His Plays ...

William Tegg - 1879 - 290 pages
...To draw no envy, Shakspeare on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man nor muse can praise too much ; "Pis true and all men's suffrage ; but these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise: For...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame; While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways [praise ; Were not the paths I meant unto thy For...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For...
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