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,... Sejanus - Page 5by Ben Jonson - 1911 - 298 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ben Jonson - Poets, Latin - 1616 - 418 pages
...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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation.'... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 518 pages
...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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation.*... | |
| Thomas Middleton - 1840 - 624 pages
...inform yon, 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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation."... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 pages
...Works of B, and F., p. xix. 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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 668 pages
...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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genins of his right by my loathed usurpation.... | |
| 1860 - 444 pages
...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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing of mine own, than to defraud so happy a gews of his right by my loathed usurpation."... | |
| Samuel Neil - Dramatists, English - 1861 - 140 pages
...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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing of mine own, than to defraud so happy & genius of his right by my loathed usurpation."... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1913 - 502 pages
...his recast play: "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...I have rather chosen to put weaker, and, no doubt, less pleasing, of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation."... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 512 pages
...in the preface took occasion to say — " Lastly, I would informe you that this booke in all numbers is not the same with that which was acted on the publike...which I have rather chosen to put weaker (and no doubt less pleasing) of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right, by my lothed usurpation."... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 pages
...in the preface took occasion to say— " Lastly, I would informe you that this booke in all numbers is not the same with that which was acted on the publike...which I have rather chosen to put weaker (and no doubt less pleasing) of mine own, than to defraud so happy a genius of his right, by my lothed usurpation."... | |
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