 | 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...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 612 pages
...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own 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 expressions, wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own 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 expressions , wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour, for 1 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 expressions, wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour, for 1 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 expressions, wherein... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein her most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour, (for My hair d@! - Ho was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions and gentle... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1848 - 386 pages
...Jonson, his constant rival for the dramatic palm, says of him, with noble simplicity, after his death, " I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 618 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....an open and free nature ; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle expressions," &.c. &c. When Jonson apostrophizes his deceased friend, he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 pages
...heart. He was ardently loved by all his friends and acquaintance. " I loved the man," says Jonson, " and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any : he was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature." And another writer declares, " that every one who had a true taste... | |
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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... 
