 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 Seiten
...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard lie had a mind to; a bounty very great, and very rare at any time, and almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 Seiten
...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to. A bounty very great, and very rare at any time, and almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 476 Seiten
...handed down by Sir William T>' Auenant , who was probably very •well acquainted with hi* aft'.urs, I should not have ventured to have inserted, that my Lord Southampton at one1 time gave him a thousand, pounds , to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 Seiten
...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William Davenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...thousand pounds to enable him to go through with a purchase ' Seethe Epilogue to " Henry ihe Fourth." .. . i which he heard he had a mind to ; a bounty... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 Seiten
...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William d'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to. A bounty very great, and very rare at any time, and almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 Seiten
...assured that the storywas handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...at one time gave him a thousand pounds, to enable hinrto go through with1 a purchase which he heard he had a mind to : A bounty very great, and very... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 Seiten
...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to. A bounty very great, and very rare at any time, and almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 Seiten
...was handed down by Sir William IVAvenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, 1 should not have ventured to have inserted; that my...thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to. A bounty very great, and very rare at any time, and almost... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 Seiten
...assured that the story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured to have...thousand pounds, to enable him to go through with a purchase which he heard he had a mind to ; a bounty verygreat, and very rare at any time, and almost... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 Seiten
...and his Rape of Lucrece. On sir William Davenant's authority, it has been asserted that this nobleman at one time gave him a thousand pounds to enable him to complete a purchase. At the conclusion of the advertisement prefixed to Lintot's edition of Shakspeare's... | |
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There is one instance so singular in the magnificence of this patron of Shakespeare's, that if I had not been assured that the story was handed down by Sir William D'Avenant, who was probably very well acquainted with his affairs, I should not have ventured... 
