 We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his...  Littell's Living Age - Page 601896Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 300 pages
...dedication of which they profess to have collected and published the plays, "without ambition of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." A few particulars respecting the Poet's family will bring us to the closing passage of his life. We... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 216 pages
...dedication of which they profess to have collected and published the plays, " without ambition of selfprofit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." Thus much, or rather thus little, is about all that we are permitted to know touching the personal... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1880 - 888 pages
...Histories, and Tragedies." These player-editors profess that "they have done this office to the dead only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare." Yet their utter negligence shown in " their fellow's " volume if- nc evidence of their pious friendship,... | |
 | 1880 - 956 pages
...their dead friend and fellow-actor: "We have collected them, and have done an office for the dead, only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage." And in their address to readers they say... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pages
...dedication of which they profess to have collected and published the plays, "without ambition of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." A few particulars respecting the Poet's family will bring us to the closing passage of his life. We... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 212 pages
...dedication of which they profess to have collected and published the plays, " without ambition of selfprofit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." Thus much, or rather thus little, is about all that we are permitted to know touching the personal... | |
 | John Sherren Brewer - 1881 - 518 pages
...done an office to the dead to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fa/me: only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakspeare.' Nor is there any reason for suspecting the sincerity of their statement. What pecuniary... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1881 - 366 pages
...p. 9. 2 Ibid., p. 10. Heminges and Condell " profess that ' they have done this office to the dead only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare.' Yet their utter negligence, shown in their fellow's volume, is no evidence of their pious friendship,... | |
 | 1881 - 868 pages
...'uprightness' and 'civill demeanor.' Heminge and Condell profess to have collected and published his plays to " keep the memory of so worthy a Friend and Fellow alive." " Will," " good Will," " beloved," he was called. " Beloved " was, to be sure, a more common word than... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1881 - 864 pages
...'uprightness' and 'civill demeanor.' Heminge and Condell profess to have collected and published his plays to " keep the memory of so worthy a Friend and Fellow alive." " Will," " good Will," " beloved," he was called. " Beloved " was, to be sure, a more common word than... | |
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