 | 1902 - 618 páginas
...did he forge the Dedication and, in the Address of Heminge and Condell, use such words as "It hath been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,... | |
 | 1902 - 400 páginas
...did he forge the Dedication and, in the Address of Heminge and Condell, use such words as "It hath been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,... | |
 | Sir Josiah Henry Symon - 1905 - 130 páginas
...prefatory address of the First Folio, " To the Great Variety of Readers," there is this passage : — " It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings, who, as he was a happier imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1909 - 176 páginas
...opinion Canon Beeching agrees (p. 25). l But in this preface occurs the following celebrated passage: — "It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings. But since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,2... | |
 | Alexander Cargill - 1916 - 230 páginas
...do now come forth quitted rather by a Decree of Court, than any purchased letters of commendation. It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been...Author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 páginas
...Heminge and Condell, however, wrote in their Address to the Reader : " It had been, we confess, a thing worthy to have been wished that the Author himself had lived to have set forth and over-seen his own Writings : but, since it hath been ordered otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1923 - 200 páginas
...words of the Preface " To the great Variety of Readers " : — " It had been a thing, we confesse, worthy to have been wished that the Author himself had lived to have set forth, and overseen his own writings. But since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,"... | |
 | George Park Fisher, George Burton Adams, Henry Walcott Farnam, Arthur Twining Hadley, John Christopher Schwab, William Fremont Blackman, Edward Gaylord Bourne, Irving Fisher, Henry Crosby Emery, Wilbur Lucius Cross - 1924 - 880 páginas
...sincerity and accuracy of which recent investigations have vindicated, Heminge and Condell go on to say: "It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings. But since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,... | |
 | Tucker Brooke - 1926 - 206 páginas
...and do now come forth quitted rather by a decree of court than any purchased letters of commendation. It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings; but since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1927 - 242 páginas
...than any purchased letters of commendation." Then comes the regret which has echoed down the ages : " It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been...author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings ; " and the tribute to his facility as " a happy imitator of nature, . . . and a most... | |
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It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings. But, since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy... 
