 | 1858 - 516 pages
...Caesar, thou dost me wrong.' He replied : ' Caesar did never wrong but with just cause,' and such-like; which were ridiculous. But he redeemed his vices with...ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." Jonson was sudden and fierce in his resentments, both with hand and pen. In early life he killed an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...passage in " Julius Ceesar," upon which we have remarked in Vol. vp 332: he then adda in conclusion: — "But he redeemed his vices with his virtues : there...ever more in him to be praised, than to be pardoned." Consistently with what Ben Jonson above tells us the players had " often mentioned," we find the following... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 pages
...of Caesar, one speaking to him: " Caesar, thou dost me wrong," he replied: " Caesar did never wrong but with just cause," and such like ; which were ridiculous....ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned.' If we add to this the noble verses of Jonson: ' To the memory of my beloved, the author, Mr William... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...of Caesar, one speaking to him, ' Ceosar, thou dost me wrong,' he replied, ' Ciesar did never wrong ey in motion ? Here are sever'd lips, Parted with...Here in her hairs, The painter plays the spider ; and — Ditcovena, — J :,„••:„'', Workt, ix. 175, Gilford's cd. uo See page xxxii. had little... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1863 - 566 pages
...Casfar, thou doft me wrong,' " he replied, 'Caefar did never wrong " but with juft caufe,' 1 and fuch like, " which were ridiculous. But he " redeemed his...with his virtues. " There was ever more in him to be " praifed than to be pardoned." Befides this honeft teftimony to his appreciation of our poet, the... | |
 | J. M. Jephson - 1864 - 286 pages
...' Csefar, thou dofl me wrong,' he replied, ' Caefar did never wrong but with juft caufe,' and fuch like, which were ridiculous. But he redeemed his vices...with his virtues. There was ever more in him to be praifed than pardoned." This is a piece of criticifm character iflic of a correct fcholar like Jonfon.... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1864 - 394 pages
...miles are measured from thy friend.'" 1 Such is at least the conclusion of Ben Jonson himself:— " There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." His eulogistic verses to " the memory of my beloved the author, Mr. William Shakespeare," render, indeed,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 728 pages
...never wrong but with just eause,' and sueh like ; whieh were ridieulous. But he redeemed his viees with his virtues. There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." Worhs, vol. ix. p. 175, ed. Gifford. Again, in The Induetion, to The Staple of A"eies, Jonson makes... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pages
...stopped.' * * * ' His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it had been so too. » » » But ho redeemed his vices with his virtues. There was ever more in him to bo praised than to bo pardoned.' In ' A Banquet of Jests/ 1639, we find ' Stratford-uponAvon' mentioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 412 pages
...Cffisar, one speaking to him, ' Caesar, thou dost me wrong.' He replied, ' Caesar did never wrong, but with just cause,' and such like; which were ridiculous....ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned." Discoveries—Works, ed. Gifford, ix. 175. Tyrwhitt supposes, that the passage in Shakespeare's Julius... | |
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Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, "Caesar, thou dost me wrong,"... 
