 | John Bell - 1777 - 658 páginas
...feruple to eut off from fame the unneeeflary young fuekers, and from others the old withered branehes ; for a great wit is no more tied to live in a vaft volume, than in a gigantie body; on the eontrary, it is eommonly more vigorous the lefs fpaee it animates, and, as Statius... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 378 páginas
...thenvin print did belong to me i neither would I make any fcruple to cut off from fome the unneceflary young fuckers, and from others the old withered branches...contrary, it is commonly more vigorous, the lefs fpace it animates. And, as Statius fays of little Tydeus *, " — — Totos infufa per artus " Major in exiguo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 páginas
...them m print did belong to me i neither would I make any fcruple to cut off from fome the unneceflary young fuckers, and from others the old withered branches ; for a great wit is np more tied to live in a vaft volume, than in. a gigantic body; on the contrary, it is commonly more... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 296 páginas
...print did belong belong to me : neither would I make any fcrnple to cut oft' from fome the unneceffary young fuckers, and from others the old withered branches;...contrary, it is commonly more vigorous, the lefs fpace it animates. And, as Statius fays of little Tydeus *, " — — Totos infufa per artus " Major in exiguo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 páginas
...them in print did belong to me ; neither would I mak< any fcruple to cut off from fome the unneceflary young fuckers, and from others the old withered branches ; for a great wit is no more tied to live in a vafl volume, than in a gigantick body ; on the contrary it is commonly more vigorous the lefs fpace... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 páginas
...them in print did belong to me ; neithcf would I make any fcruple to cut off from fome the unneceffary young fuckers, and from others the old withered branches ; for a great wic js no more tied to live in a vaft volume than in a gigantic body ; on the contrary, it is commonly... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 páginas
...them in print did belong to me ; neither would I make any fcruple to cut off from fome the unneceffary young fuckers, and from others the old withered branches...is no more tied to live in a vaft volume, than in a gigantick body ; on the contrary it is commonly more vigorous the lefs fpace it animates, and as Statius... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 páginas
...belong to me : neither would I make any scruple to cut off from somS the unnecessary young suckers, and from others the old withered branches; for a great wit is no more tied to live in a vast volume, than in a gigantic body ; on the contrary, it is commonly more vigorous, the less space... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 páginas
...did belong to me; neither would I make any scruple to cut offfrom some the unnecessary young suckers, and from others the old withered branches; for a great wit is no more tied to live in a vast volume, than in a gigantick body; on the contrary it is commonly more vigorous the less space... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 páginas
...belong to me; neither would I make any scruple to cut off from some the unnecessary young suckers, and from others the old withered branches ; for a great wit is no more tied to live in a vast volume, than in a gigantick body ; on the contrary it is commonly more vigorous the less space... | |
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This has been the case with Shakspeare, Fletcher, Jonson, and many others ; part of whose poems I should take the boldness to prune and lop away, if the care of replanting them in print did belong to me : neither would I make any scruple to cut off from... 
