 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...Volpone, The Silent Woman, and The Alchemist. THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE. To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name. Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these would light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right : Or blind... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - American literature - 1875 - 660 pages
...OF MY BELOVED MASTF.R, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - English drama - 1875 - 510 pages
...BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Ami thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...beloved, the Author, Mr William Shakspeare, and what fie hath left us. To draw no envy, Shakspeare, contemplation of evil, and knows not the utmost that vice promises to her followers, would light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right : Or blind affection, which doth ne'er... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...OF MY BELOVED, MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT us. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise : For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection,... | |
 | Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...OF MY BELOVED, MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT us. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise : For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection,... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT DS. To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame;...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection,... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - English drama - 1876 - 598 pages
...commendations of Shakspeare (his friend but also his rival) when in the abovementioned eulogy he says : ' I confess thy writings to be such as neither man nor...praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage ;' and again when he calls him the ' soul of the age ! the applause ! the delight and wonder of our... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1878 - 576 pages
...MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER WILLIAM 8HAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection,... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - English language - 1878 - 748 pages
...volume of 1623 contains these lines by his cotemporary, Ben Jonson : " To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame...such As neither Man nor Muse can praise too much." Had there been the least suspicion of the kind, would Jonson, who died 1637, have allowed the above... | |
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To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much. 
