 | William James Rolfe - Dramatists, English - 1904 - 600 pages
...before his death and published at his dying request. Faelicem f uisse inf austum." The dedication is " To those Gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to prevent his extremities." The passage in which... | |
 | Daniel Henry Lambert - Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 - 1904 - 160 pages
...Thomas Creede,for Richard Oliue, dwelling in long long [sic] Lane, and are there to be solde. 1596. To those Gentlemen, his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to preuent his extremities. If wofull experience... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - Drama - 1904 - 580 pages
...but also interesting for the light it casts upon the theatre in that year, 1592. It opens thus : ' To those gentlemen his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.' After calling upon Marlowe,... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - England - 1904 - 314 pages
...the first printed allusion to Shakespeare, a passage which must speak here once more for itself. " To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities. " If woful experience... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English drama - 1908 - 662 pages
...we meet with the Greene's menwell-known first allusion to Shakespeare in Greene's notorious "address to those gentlemen his quondam acquaintance that spend their wits in making plays," affixed to the pamphlet written on his deathbed, A Groatsworth of Wit purchased with a Million... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 254 pages
...and ... (p. 141): to my fellow Schollers about this Cittie, will I direct these few ensuing lines. To those Gentlemen his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plates, R. G. wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to preuent his extremities. If woefull experience... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 212 pages
...to the others is: IG = Israel Gollancz, MA; HNH= Henry Norman Hudson, AM; CHH= CH Herford, Litt.D. To those Gentlemen, his Quondam, acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to present his extremities. Thou famous gracer of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 212 pages
...to the others is: IG = Israel Gollancz, MA ; HNH= Henry Norman Hudson, AM; CHH= CH Herford, LittJ). To those Gentlemen, his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to present his extremities. Thou famous gracer of... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1909 - 172 pages
...I give it its natural meaning, viz. that two of the playwrights ad1 The whole of Greene's address " To those Gentlemen his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies," to whom he " wisheth a better exercise, and wisdome to prevent bis extremities," should be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1910 - 254 pages
...a pamphlet written a short time before his death in September, 1592. In the parting words addressed "To those Gentlemen his Quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making Plaies," he says : " Yes, trust them not : for there is an vpstart Crow, beautified with our feathers,... | |
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