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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... "
The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the ... - Page xii
by William Shakespeare - 1803
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who en use that cireumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted...that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. THE LIFE OF Excepting by mere tradition, we hear not a syllable regarding William Shakespeare from...
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The Lives of the Poets-laureate: With an Introductory Essay on the Title and ...

Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - English poetry - 1853 - 448 pages
...thousand!' which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend...his memory on this side idolatry, as much as any. Ha was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and gentle...
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The Shopkeeper's Guide

Shopkeeper, Robert Kemp Philp - Retail trade - 1853 - 264 pages
...forward as his own rival, says of him with honourable gratitude, " I loved the man. I do hononr to his memory on this side idolatry, as much as any....free nature, had an excellent fancy, brave notions, gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necestary he should...
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A Compendium of English Literature, Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...One of his contemporaries, Ben Jonson, thus characterizes him: — "I loved the man, and do honor to his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any....free nature: had an excellent fancy, brave notions, ami gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary it should...
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The North British Review, Volume 24

English literature - 1855 - 604 pages
...his other gifts and qualities, a man of unparalleled fluency. " 1 loved the man," said Ben, " a^id mily resemblance to Hogmanay * phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes...
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The Poems of William Shakespear

William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...without a blot in his papers.and by Ben Jonson, who says of him, ' I loved the man, and do honour to his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any....and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantsie, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspere, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, H I 8 9 : ; His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. But he redeemed his vices with...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 528 pages
...' ; which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend...and of an open and free nature; had -an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - Biography & Autobiography - 1856 - 494 pages
...' ; which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend...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...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pages
...thousand 1 Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend...and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes...
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