 | Sir John Collings Squire - English literature - 1920 - 806 pages
...came to give Tamburlaine to the world he warned the reader that he had purposely omitted " certain fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my...thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than anyway else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain conceited fondlings greatly gaped... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1853 - 804 pages
...buffoonery which ne found in the manuscript copy. 'I hare purposely omitted and left out,' he says, ' some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my...the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious onto the wise than any wav else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1932 - 396 pages
...who tells us apologetically, in his edition of Tamburlaine, that he ' purposely omitted . . . some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter.' He saw the ' disgrace ' of mixing these things in print ' with such matter of worth.' The bias for... | |
 | Andrew Gurr - Drama - 1996 - 330 pages
...4, D8r. 16 Richard Jones in the 1590 edition wrote of the omissions as 'far unmeet for the matter... though haply they have been of some vain conceited fondlings greatly gaped at'. 17 ES 11.75. 18 Reavley Gair, The Children of Paul's, Cambridge 1982, p. 98. 19 Quoted by Gair, ibid.,... | |
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I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been... 
