 I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage; wherein a second pen •' had good share: in place of which, I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own,...  Ben Jonson - Pàgina 45per John Addington Symonds - 1898 - 202 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Ben Jonson - 1616 - 418 pàgines
...his own glory, cf. these expressions in Sejanus (To the Readers) : 'Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation.' Again, Jonson loved translating perhaps even more than 'making,' and he was not the only one who believed... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 pàgines
...the chapter doth sufficiently direct, or the edition is not varied. Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation.* J Defraud so happy a genius of Ms rigl,t by mtj loathed usurpation^ The genius here alluded to undoubtedly... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 546 pàgines
...to be displeased with the liberal acknowledgment of his merits. " I have rather chosen (Jonson says) to put weaker, and no doubt, less pleasing of mine...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation." Ibid. The brutal scurrility with which Jonson is assailed on this point, has been noticed elsewhere.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pàgines
...Again, in the Address to the Reader, prefixed to Sejanus, ito. 1605: " Lastly I would inform you that this book in all numbers is not the same with that which unacted on the publick stage." Again, in the Dedication of Jonson's Epigrams to Lord Pembroke, 1616:... | |
 | Thomas Middleton - 1840 - 624 pàgines
...Readers" prefixed to the 4to of Sejcmus, 1605, Ben Jonson says, " Lastly, I would inform yon, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation." On this passage Gifford remarks, " Why might not Chapman or Middleton be intended here ? they, like... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 pàgines
...printed in 1607. " Mr. Darley (himself a true poet), — Introd. to the Works of B, and F., p. xix. in all numbers, is not the same with that which was...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation ". Gifford, who at first felt assured that the " happy genius " meant Fletcher, was afterwards less... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 608 pàgines
...mother was but borne to day. FB" s Pref. remarks to Beaumont's Poems. OF BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. XXV in all numbers, is not the same with that which was...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation ". Clifford, who at first felt assured that the " happy genius " meant Fletcher, was afterwards less... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1854 - 976 pàgines
...printed in 1605 ; and in an address " To the Readers," Jonson says, " Lastly, I would inform yon that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that...have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less plensing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation." Gifford,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pàgines
...the quarto of 1605 (when it was originally printed), Jonson says; " Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation. " Gifford thinks that by "a second pen" is meant Fletcher, — not Shakespeare, as had been generally... | |
 | 1860 - 444 pàgines
...; for in that advertisement there appears the following passage, viz.:—" I would inform you that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that...less pleasing of mine own, than to defraud so happy a gews of his right by my loathed usurpation." To what other dramatist than Shakespere would Ben Jonson... | |
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