 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. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage.  Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life - Page 97by William Shakespeare - 1847Full view - About this book
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 pages
...MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, 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 would light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - English poetry - 1882 - 524 pages
...Underwoods, but really from the Fir,t Folio edition of Shakspeare, 1623.] 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 seeliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right ; Or blind affection,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 1164 pages
...of 1623. To the Memory of my belored, the Author, Mr, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, and what he hath left us. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus...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,... | |
 | E.H. Butler & Co - Readers - 1853 - 396 pages
...the most intimate friends of Shakespeare. He died in 1637, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. 1 . To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus...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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...wit in a jest." Jonson's famous eulogy on Shakespeare is familiar to all students of literature : " To draw no envy [Shakespeare] on thy name. Am I thus...these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise ; I, therefore, will begin : Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1857 - 596 pages
...quoted. ' To the Memory of my beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and what he hath left us. ' To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise: For seeliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind afl'ection,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Addington Symonds - Bookbinding - 1886 - 430 pages
...picture, but his book. TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus...suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thj- praise ; For silliest ignorance on these may light, Or blind affection, which doth ne'er advance... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - American literature - 1888 - 712 pages
...ju?t Irving. TO THE MEMORY OF MY BELOVED MASTER, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. *O draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus...true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not i he paths I meant unto thy praise ; For silliest ignorance on these would light, Which, when it sounds... | |
 | James Appleton Morgan - 1888 - 360 pages
...verses : TO THE MEMORY OP MY BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, MASTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name Am I thus...ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise; For seeliest ignorance on these may light, Which, when it sounds at best, but echoes right; Or blind affection,... | |
 | Alexander Schmidt - English literature - 1889 - 436 pages
...enable the reader to form a judgment of the style and manner of Jonson. — To draw no envy, Shakspeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame:...these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise: Having said thus much, we might easily wave this subject and return to our principal question, but... | |
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