 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...Venus and Adonis. There is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspere's, that, if I had not been assured that the story was...handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my lord Southampton... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...he dedicated his poem of Venus and Adonis. There is one instance so singular in the magnificence pf this patron of Shakspeare's, that if I had not been...handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my lord Southampton... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 476 pages
...and Adonis. There is one instance so singular in the magniGcence of this patron of Shuksjicarc's , that if I had not been assured that the story was handed down by Sir William T>' Auenant , who was probably very •well acquainted with hi* aft'.urs, I should not have ventured... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...and Adonis." I here is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Sha kespeare's, that, if I had not been assured that the story was...handed down by Sir William Davenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted — that my lord... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...It was to that noble lord that he dedicated his poem of Veuut and Adonis. There is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare's,...handed down by Sir William d'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted ; that my lord Southampton... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...the tenth volume, [ie of Mr. Malone's edition] prefixed to the poem of Venus and Adonis. Jtfitlone. in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare's,...handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted; that my Lord Southampton... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...to the poem of 1-enus tuid .Idanis. Malone. § he drJicctetl his poem of Venus and Adonis.] To this in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare's,...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William IVAvenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, 1 should not have ventured to have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...Venus and Adonis. There is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare, that if I had not been assured that the story was...handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my lord Southampton... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...Venus and Monis. There is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare, that if I had not been assured that the story was...handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my lord Southampton... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...its original amount. * * " There is one instance," says Rowe, who first mentioned the anecdote, " so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare's,...handed down by Sir William Davenant, who was probably very well acquainted B 2 f This may be, and probably is, an exaggeration ; but that it has been founded... | |
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There is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakspeare's, that if I had not been assured that the story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured... 
