| Israel Gollancz, Walter Bagehot - 1901 - 242 sider
...authentic:—In " Aubrey's Lives of Eminent Men " (c. 1680) it is stated that " this Wm. being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London I guesse...of the play-houses and did act exceedingly well." The old parish clerk of Stratford narrated in 1693, being about eighty years old at the time, that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1901 - 396 sider
...authentic : — In " Aubrey's Lives of Eminent Men " (c. 1680) it is stated that " this Wm. being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London I guesse...of the play-houses and did act exceedingly well." The old parish clerk of Stratford narrated in 1693, being about eighty years old at the time, that... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1901 - 546 sider
...authentic : — In " Aubrey's Lives of Eminent Men " (c. 1680) it is stated that " this Wm. being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London I guesse...of the play-houses and did act exceedingly well." The old parish clerk of Stratford narrated in 1693, being about eighty years old at the time, that... | |
| 1904 - 390 sider
...him for a naturall witt, his acquaintance and coetanean, but dyed young. This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I...the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well (now B. Johnson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor). He began early to make essayes at dramatique... | |
| Charles Isaac Elton, Andrew Lang - 1904 - 552 sider
...him for a naturall witt, his acquaintance and coetanean, but dyed young. This William, being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18; and 1 Aubrey, us, p. 26. 3 Id,, i. 239, sub Michael Drayton. 3 "From Mr. . . . Beeston" is the note with... | |
| Charles Isaac Elton, Andrew Lang - 1904 - 544 sider
...old English poets, whose lives I am taking from him ; his father was master of the . . . playhouse." was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well."1 Aubrey has a note about Ben Jonson, received from Mr. J. Greenhill, that when he came home... | |
| Joseph William Gray - 1905 - 324 sider
...his acquaintance and coetanea.n, but dyed young.8 This William being inclined naturally to jaoetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18 ; and...play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (Now B. Johnson was never a good actor but an excellent instructor). He began early to make essayes at dramatique... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1907 - 446 sider
...witt, his acquaintance and coctancan, but dyed young. This Wm., being inclined naturally to poeiry and acting, came to London I guesse about 18, and...play-houses, and did act exceedingly well. Now B. Johnson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make essayes at dramatique... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1907 - 476 sider
...: "This William, being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse about 1 8, and was an actor at one of the playhouses and did act exceedingly well. Now B. Johnson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make essays at dramatique... | |
| Francis Asbury Smith - 1907 - 142 sider
...being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London, I guess about eighteen (ie, in 1582), and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceeding well." " He began early to make essays at dramatic poetry, and his plays took well." The... | |
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