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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 : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ... - Page 217
by William Shakespeare - 1813
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein inflowed eeling has here banished all antique and »fleet«! expression : there is svfflimanâus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...(on this side idolatry) as much a* any. He was indeed honest, nnd of an open and free nature . had nn les ; The second, William of Hatficld; and the third, Lionel, duke of Clarence ; ne faculty, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. Sufflaminandua eral, as Augustus said...
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Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 1

Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - 386 pages
...loved the man, and do honour 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." Besides, the patronage of the generous, the high-souled, chivalrous Earl of Southampton, and the deep,...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he...was necessary he should be stopped : Sufflaminandus erat,as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it had been so...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

1849 - 606 pages
...as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions ; wherein he...sometimes it was necessary he should ,be stopped." It may be doubted whether "old Ben Jonson" would have made the best brakeman to regulate the velocity...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pages
...as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, H + > އg | sufflimandus trat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it...
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Notes and Queries

1893 - 688 pages
...for vice never fails to sound trumpettoned its association with men of genius ; that " he was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions "; that he loved his country and home, and won unequivocal respect and admiration from his contemporaries....
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...an apologetical tone in venturing an observation which can scareely be considered disparaging — " he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped." It was the facility that excited Jonson's eritical comparison of Shakspere with himself ; and it was...
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Memoir, Select Thoughts and Sermons, Volume 2

Edward Payson - 1849 - 628 pages
...harmony, like birds from the aviary of Eden before the fall. As Ben Johnson said of Shakespeare : " He had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with such facility that sometimes it was necessary that he should be stopped ! " A third original element...
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Notes and Queries

1905 - 640 pages
...idolatry, as much as any, but that he flowed, in his fantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped (snuffed out) ; but that he redeemed his vices with his virtues, and there was ever more in him to...
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