 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - Antislavery movements - 1854 - 406 pages
...may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. His pleasurable wit and good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of the neighborhood." And Dr. Drake says, " He was high in reputation as a poet, favored by the great and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 280 pages
...particulars collected in the preceding pages. Kowe says that ' his pleasurable wit and good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him...friendship, of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood.' The only anecdote, however, that survives of his wit is utterly irreconcileable with his good-nature,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his x y ia a story, almost still remembered in that country, that he had a particular intimacy with Mr. Combe,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 pages
...as all men of good sense will wish theirs' may be—in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate...some years before his death at his native Stratford. IIis pleasurable wit and good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his ts :Xni0 good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 pages
...as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his o o o oXm ohl{o|o}o~o o o o o orlsltl good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...in ease, retirement, and the society of his friends ;" and he adds, what cannot be doubted, that " his pleasurable wit and good-nature engaged him in...the friendship of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood '." He must have been of a lively and companionable disposition ; and his long residence in London,... | |
 | William John Pinks - England - 1860 - 156 pages
...as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to this occasion, and in that to his wish ; and is said to have spent some years before his death at his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 pages
...country-gentleman. Rowe describes Viim as living in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends: ' His pleasurable wit and good-nature engaged him in...of the gentlemen of the neighbourhood. Amongst them is a story almost still remembered in that country, that he had a particular intimacy with Mr Combe,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his em her thence, might wear Without corrival, all her...half-fac'd fellowship ! WOH. He apprehends a world good nature engaged him in the acquaintance, and entitled him to the friendship, of the gentlemen of... | |
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The latter part of his life was spent, as all men of good sense will wish theirs may be, in ease, retirement, and the conversation of his friends. He had the good fortune to gather an estate equal to his occasion, and, in that, to his wish ; and is said... 
