 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 730 pagine
...world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen : only, if your honor seem but pleased, I account myself highly praised,...vow to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honored you with some graver labor. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 546 pagine
...nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden : only, em : and the first he view'd, But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a god-father,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 pagine
...nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen : only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself...till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 556 pagine
...nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burthen : only if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself...advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured vou with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pagine
...lordship, nor how the world will censure me lor chosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden; only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account myself...highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle Iwurs, till I have honoured you with some grayer labour But if the first heir of my invention prove... | |
 | David M. Main - 1880 - 490 pagine
...Epistle to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, prefixed to the Venus and Adonis, Shakspere says : " I vow to take advantage of all idle hours till I have honoured you with some graver labour;" and in the similar document prefixed to the Rape oj Lucrece, he says : "What Ihavedone is yours" PACE... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 pagine
...very different from the usual high-flown style of literary adulation then in vogue ; telling him, " If your Honour seem but pleased, I account myself...till I have honoured you with some graver labour." In the dedication, he calls the poem "the first heir of my invention." Whether he dated its birth from... | |
 | David M. Main (ed) - 1881 - 496 pagine
...to Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, prefixed to Ihe 'Venus and Adonis, Shakspere says : " I vow to take advantage of all idle hours till I have honoured you with some graver labour ; " and in the similar document prefixed to the Eape of Lucrece, he says : '' What I have done is yours... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 362 pagine
...LVH. reappears in this sonnet. 7. Idle hours. So in the dedication of Venus and Adonis, "I ... vowe to take advantage of all idle hours, till I have honoured you with some graver labour." 11. Defeat, destroy. Othello, Act iv. sc. 2, 1. 150, " His uakindness may defeat my life." LXII. Perhaps... | |
 | 300 pagine
...strong a prop to support so weak a burden: only, if your honour seem but pleased, I account my self highly praised, and vow to take advantage of all idle...till I have honoured you with some graver labour. But if the first heir of my invention prove deformed, I shall be sorry it had so noble a godfather,... | |
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I know not how I shall offend in dedicating my unpolished lines to your Lordship, nor how the world will censure me for choosing so strong a prop to support so weak a burden. 
