 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 378 pages
...ill-natur'd answer that it would be of no serviee to their eompany, when Shakespear lnekily east his eye upon it, and found something so well in it as to engage him first to read it through, and afterwards to reeommend Mr. Johnson and his writings to the publiek." In the first edition of his Life of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company, when Shakspere luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it as to engage...first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the publie."* The tradition which Rowe thus records is not supported... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company, when Shakspere luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it as to engage him first to read it through, and afterwards : recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the publie."* The tradition which Rowe thus records is not... | |
 | 1896 - 664 pages
...order to have it acted; when Shakespear lucnly casting his eye upon it, and found something so »ell in it, as to engage him first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his wrang« to the publiok." Henslowe notes that 'Every Man in his Humour' was acted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company, when Shakspeare luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it, as to...through, and afterwards to recommend Jonson and his ivritings to the public." — This anecdote is disputed by Mr Gifford. He proves that in 1598, when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 462 pages
...illnatured answer, that it would be of no use to their company ; when Shakespeare luckily cast his eye on it, and found something so well in it, as to engage...first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the public. Jonson was certainly a very good scholar, and in that had... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...ill-natured answer, that it would bo of no service to their company, when Shakspeare luckily cast his eye upon it, and found something so well in it, as to...recommend Jonson and his writings to the public." — This anecdote is disputed by Mr Gilford. He proves that in 1598, when Every Nan in hit Humor, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their company, when Shakespeare, lucidly, cast his eye ls : The Mr. Jonson and his writings to the public." This anecdote is entirely disbelieved by Mr. Gifford, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 444 pages
...illnatured answer, that it would be of no use to their company ; when Shakespeare luckily cast his eye on it, and found something so well in it, as to engage...first to read it through, and afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the public. Jonson was certainly a very good scholar, and in that had... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...ill-natured answer, that it would be of no serviee to their company, when Shakespeare, luckily, east his eye upon it, and found something so well in it, as to engage him first to read it through, ana afterwards to recommend Mr. Jonson and his writings to the publie." Thia anecdote is entirely disbelieved... | |
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... to the players, in order to have it acted ; and the persons into whose hands it was put, after having turned it carelessly and superciliously over, were just upon returning it to him with an ill-natured answer, that it would be of no service to their... 
