 | John Britton - Architecture - 1814 - 846 pages
...make a speech. This William, being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London, I gnesse, about 18, and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man ; verie good companie, and of a very ready and pleasant and smooth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...trade ; but when he killed a calfe, he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. This William, being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came...the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. Now Ben Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make essays in dramatique... | |
 | John Walker - English letters - 1813 - 1014 pages
...witt, his acquaintance and coctanean, but dyed young. This W™ being in* From Fab. Philips. clined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I...Play-houses, and did act exceedingly well. Now B. Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make Essayes at Dramatique Poetry,... | |
 | John Walker - English letters - 1813 - 326 pages
...This W'? being in* From Fab. Philips. clined naturally to poetry and acting, catne to London, Iguesse, about 18, and was an actor at one of the Play-houses, and did act exceedingly well. Now B. Jonson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make Essayes at Dramatique Poetry,... | |
 | John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees - Architecture - 1814 - 872 pages
...killed a calf he would do it in a high style, and make a speech. This William, being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about...one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man ; verie good companie, and of a very ready and pleasant and smooth... | |
 | James Norris Brewer - 1820 - 396 pages
...a high style, and make a speech. This William, being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, camo to London, I guesse, about 18, and was an actor at one of the plry houses, and di(l act exceedingly well. He was a handsome, well -shaped man ; yerie good companie,... | |
 | William Thomas Moncrieff - Health resorts - 1824 - 396 pages
...persons in it. There is no doubt but that he first distinguished himself as an actor : Aubrey says " he was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. Now B. Jonson was never ' a good actor, . but an excellent instructor.1' The numerous biographers of the poet, have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...young. This Win. being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse about eighteen, ue man, and leave these rogues, I am the veriest varlet that ever chewed wit I ;. Jonson never was a good actor, but an excellent instructor. He began early to make essayes at... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 936 pages
...Sbakspearc,) being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to Ixmdon, I guesse about eighteen, and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well. He began early to make essayes at dramatique poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his play»... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...the case, when he tells us, that ' being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, he came to London, and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well.' Another tradition, which places him in a still meaner occupation, is said to have been transmitted... | |
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This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18; and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (now B. 
