| Ben Jonson - 1616 - 418 páginas
...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 which was...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 páginas
...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 which was...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 páginas
...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.... | |
| Thomas Middleton - 1840 - 624 páginas
...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 which was...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 páginas
...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 páginas
...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 which was...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 páginas
...that advertisement there appears the following passage, viz.:—" I would inform you that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was...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... | |
| Samuel Neil - 1861 - 140 páginas
...that advertisement there appears the following passage, viz.:—" I would inform you that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was...less pleasing of mine own, than to defraud so happy & genius of his right by my loathed usurpation." To what other dramatist than Shakespere would Ben... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1866 - 588 páginas
...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 which was acted on tin: public stage ; wherein a second pen had good share : in place of which, I have rather chosen to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1913 - 502 páginas
...Shakespeare and Jonson worked together on Sejanus beyond Jonson's words in his recast play: "this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was...happy a genius of his right by my loathed usurpation." Is it likely that a play of which Shakespeare, about the best part of his middle time, wrote "good... | |
| |