 ... without flattery, the greatest monument of the scene that time and humanity have produced, and must live, not only the crown and sole reputation of our own, but the stain of all other nations and languages...  Essays and Reviews - Page 56by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...demonstrative and met in Beaumont and Fletcher, whom but to mention is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity; this book being, without...own, but the stain of all other nations and languages : for it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...demonstrative and met in Beaumont and Fletcher, whom but to mention is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity; this book being, without...but the stain of all other nations and languages: for it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this being... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...virtues and passions of every noble condition, nay, the counsels and characters of the greatest princes. book being, without flattery, the greatest monument...own, but the stain of all other nations and languages : for, it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this... | |
 | James Shirley - 1833 - 576 pages
...demonstrative and met in Beaumont and Fletcher, whom but to mention is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity ; this book being without...own, but the stain of all other nations and languages : for, it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this... | |
 | James Shirley, Alexander Dyce - 1833 - 584 pages
...demonstrative and met in Beaumont and Fletcher, whom but to mention is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity ; this book being without...own, but the stain of all other nations and languages : for, it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 pages
...all former names, and benight posterity ; this book being, without flattery, the greatest monumeut of the scene that time and humanity have produced,...own, but the stain of all other nations and languages : for, it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 608 pages
...demonstrative and met in Beaumont and Fletcher, whom but to mention, is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity ; this book being, without...own, but the stain of all other nations and languages ; for, it may be boldly averred, not one indiscretion hath branded this paper in all the lines, this... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 618 pages
...demonstrative and met in Beaumont and Fletcher, whom but to mention, is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity ; this book being, without...have produced, and must live, not only the crown and solo reputation of our own, but the stain of all other nations and languages ; for, it may be boldly... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...Fleteher, in 1647, speaks of these writers: — " Whom but to mention is to throw a cloud upon all former names, and benight posterity; this book being, without...humanity have produced, and must live, not only the erown and sole reputation of our own, but the stain of all other nations and languages ; for it may... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...amongst those who were perforee contented with reading plays during the silence of the stage. From " the greatest monument of the scene that time and humanity have produced," was to be learned what «as of more advantage "than a costly, dangerous, foreign travel." Hence were... | |
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