 | William Shakespeare - 1868 - 538 pàgines
...any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, ami gentle expressions, Wherein he flowed with that facility,...that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. Hia wit was in bis own power, Would the use of it had been so too ! But he redeemed his vices with... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pàgines
...According to the testimony of Ben Jonson, with whom he had many "wit combats" at the Mermaid Tavern, he " had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle...with that facility that sometimes it was necessary that he should be stopped." These last words reveal whole volumes respecting his peculiar literary... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pàgines
...According to the testimony of Ben Jonson, with whom he had many "wit combats" at the Mermaid Tavern, he " had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle...with that facility that sometimes it was necessary that he should be stopped." These last words reveal whole volumes respecting his peculiar literary... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 pàgines
...honest, and of an open and free nature ; hud an excellent phantasy ; '•' brave notions, and gentle 3 expressions ; wherein he flowed with that facility,...that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule... | |
 | 1900 - 1070 pàgines
...wanted art ;" that he ought to have "blotted a thousand" lines; that he " had an excellent fancy ; brave notions and gentle expressions ; wherein he...sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped;" but all these adverse opinions, for which there was, from- Jonson's point of view, substantial ground,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 502 pàgines
...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;...that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was hi his own power, would the rule of... | |
 | 1872 - 592 pàgines
...memory on this side idolatry aa much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ; bad an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions,...that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped, sujjlaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power : would the rule of... | |
 | 1880 - 592 pàgines
...as much as any). He was (indeed) honest and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasie, brave notions, and gentle expressions : wherein he...that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped. Sujflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power, would the rule of... | |
 | John Forster - 1873 - 516 pàgines
...considerateness for the general design. I think of Ben Jonson's experience of the greatest of all writers. "He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature...sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped." Who it was that stopped him, and the ease of doing it, no one will doubt. Whether he, as well as the... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1995 - 424 pàgines
...idolatry) 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 flowed with that facility that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped . . .' There is also a certain amount of negative evidence:... | |
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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... 
