...of nature. Ben Jonson, one of the greatest authors of the age, who was his friend, said : " I loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fancy, brave notions, and...

...given us his feeling for Shakespeare in a prose work called Discoveries, in which he says, " I loved the man and do honor his memory on this side idolatry as much as any." In some celebrated Lines he says of Shakespeare : — " I confess thy writings to be such As neither...

...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candor: for I loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and...

...The following testimony of the rough, upright Ben Jonson is of special value: "I loved the man, pnd do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and...

...dull life." The following testimony of the rough, upright Ben Jonson is of special value : " I loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and...

...their rights, so far as they were capable of being protected by judicial authority. For myself, I know no form of words to express my deep sense of the loss...what was said long ago, concerning one of the few mortals who were greater than he : "I did love the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry,...

...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candor : for I loved the man, and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions,...

...had it not been sanctioned by a feeling of gratitude for a definite and important service,—"I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any." This was a personal idolatry, not one solely in reference to his works, moderately adverse criticisms upon...

...it not been sanctioned by a feeling of gratitude for a definite and important service, — "I loved the man and do honor his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any." This was a personal idolatry, not one solely in reference to his works, moderately adverse criticisms upon...

...circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted. And to justify mine own candor (for I loved the man, and do honor his memory — on this side idolatry — as much as any), he was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and...