 | Joseph Wilson (of the Inner Temple.) - 1803 - 400 pàgines
...your true friend, my Mufe, I love Your great profeflion, which I once did prove ; And did not ihame it with my actions then, No- more than I dare now do with my pen. Decker hints at his valour, and being a man of the fword. This alludes to a fatal accident whichbefel... | |
 | Joseph Wilson (of the Inner Temple.) - 1803 - 400 pàgines
...your true friend, my Mufe, I lovs Your great profeffion, which I once did prove ; And did not lhame it with my actions then, No more than I dare now do with ray pen. Decker hints at his valour, and being a man of the- fword.- This alludes to a fatal accident... | |
 | 1807 - 474 pàgines
...he refers to his former profession, and speaks with modest complacency of his military services. " I swear by your true friend, my Muse, I love Your...with my actions then, No more than I dare now do with t/ny pen." It appears that, by the recommendation of Camden, he was at some period tutor to Sir Walter... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 pàgines
...profession; which I once did prove: And did not shame it with my actions then, No more than I dare now doe with my pen. He that not trusts me, having vow'd thus much, But's angry for the captaine still, is such. CIX. TO SIR HENRY NEVIL. WHO now calls on tbee, Nevil, is a Muse, That serves... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 pàgines
...[thence, " And your high names ; I do desire, that " Be nor put on you, nor you take offence : " Г swear by your true friend, my muse, I love " Your...with my actions then, " No more than I dare now do virith my рей. " He that not trusts me having vow'd thus much, "' But'sangry for the captain, still... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pàgines
...you, [thence, " And yoor high names ; I do desire, that " Be nor put on you, nor you take oñence : " I swear by your true friend, my muse, I love " Your...did prove ' ; " And did not shame it with my actions (hen, " No more than I dare now do with my pen. " lie that not trusts'1 me having vow'd thus much,... | |
 | John Nichols - 1817 - 874 pàgines
...did it in an Epigram at the end of his Poetaster, directed to true Soldiers, in which he says, " J swear by your true Friend, my Muse, I love Your great...actions then, No more than I dare now do with my Pen." Decker, likewise, hints in his Hiatrio-mastix at our Ben'* valour; and his being a Man of (he Sword.... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 878 pàgines
...did it in an Epigram at the end of his Poetaster, directed to true Soldiers, in which he says, " 1 swear by your true Friend, my Muse, I love Your great...did not shame it with my actions then, No more than 1 dare now do with my Pen." Decker, likewise, liints in his Histrio-mastix at our Ben'* valour; and... | |
 | Maria Baldwin - 1839 - 364 pàgines
...an epigram, at the end of his "Poetaster," directed to true soldiers, in these words:— " I sware by your true friend, my Muse, I love Your great profession,...actions then, No more than I dare now do with my pen."» In Jonson we see the power of industry, in Shakspeare, the force of genius. He died in 1637, aged sixty-three,... | |
 | Miscellaneous extracts - 1839 - 358 pàgines
...epigram, at the end of his "Poetaster," directed to true soldiers, in these words : — . " I aware by your true friend, my Muse, I love Your great profession, which I once did prove j And did not shame it with my actions then, No more than I dare now do with my pen."* In Jonson we... | |
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Strength of my country, whilst I bring to view Such as are miscalled captains and wrong you And your high names, I do desire that thence Be nor put on you, nor you take offence. I swear by your true friend, my muse, I love Your great profession, which... 
