 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 752 pages
...that Shakespeare " many times fell into those things could not escape laughter," Jonson adds this: — "As when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking...• Caesar did never wrong, but with just cause.' " (Edit. fo. 1640, p. 98.) It is very evident that Ben Jonson was only writing from memory, " shaken... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pages
...that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Swfflaminandus mat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would...been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him : ' Caesar,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1858 - 516 pages
...that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Sufflammandus «rat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would...been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him : ' Caesar,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Books - 1858 - 512 pages
...sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Suflaminandus Krai, as Augustus said of Hatcrius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it...been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Csesar, one speaking to him : ' Cwsar,... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 890 pages
...(when the necessity for ' stopping ' could only be pointed out by a critic later) is unimportant. ' His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it...been so too ! Many times he fell into those things that could not escape laughter ' (' sad stuff in Shakespeare,' said George HI. to Fanny Burney), and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 pages
...that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Sufflaminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power: would...been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter ; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him: " Caesar,... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 394 pages
...He cites an instance of his trips, which is far from happy. " Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the...just cause,' and such like, which were ridiculous." There is no contradiction in the passage. It intimates that Caesar never committed an act which might... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - English language - 1864 - 406 pages
...Ben Jon son, in his Discoveries, speaking of Shakespeare, says, "Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the...Caesar did never wrong but with just cause.'" And he ridicules the expression again in his Staple of News :—" Cry you mercy; you never did wrong but... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 728 pages
...faeility, that sometimes it was neeessary he should be stopped : S,,jflaminandns erat, as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power : would...been so too ! Many times he fell into those things eould not eseape laughter : as when he said in the person of C,esar, one speaking to him, ' Ca•sar,... | |
 | Alexander Rivington, Henry Thomas Hall, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Robert Cartwright, William Robson Arrowsmith - 1865 - 254 pages
...lago, the praise being spiced with a delicious bit of malice, he could not help it, 'twas his nature. " His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it...been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Csesar, one speaking to him, ' Csesar,... | |
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His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it had been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, 
