 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1870 - 534 pages
...graver labour :" in dedicating the second poem he speaks of it as " my untutored lines," and adds, " what I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours, being part in all I have, devoted yours." So far, then, we have a tittle of evidence to prove " We deem'd onr Willy aye... | |
 | 1871 - 632 pages
...this pamphlet without beginning is but a superfluous moiety (this almost smacks of a lawyer's office). The warrant I have of your honourable disposition,...yours ; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater my duty would show greater ; meantime, as it is it is... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 pages
...by his Lucrece, dedicated to the same nobleman in a strain of more open and assured friendship : " The warrant I have of your honourable disposition,...I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours." It was probably about this time that the event took place which Howe heard of through Sir William Davenant,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 588 pages
...your Lordship is without end ; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is hut a superfluous moiety.' The warrant I have of your honourable disposition,...yours; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would show greater; meantime, as it is, it is... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 474 pages
...the same patron, Henry Wriuthesly, Earl of Southampton, in language of remarkable significance : " What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have devoted yours." The tradition is that Southampton had presented him a thousand pounds. About... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 506 pages
...Elizabethans. Shakespeare himself, in dedicating his " Lucrece" to Southampton, used the expression —" what I have done is yours ; what I have to do is yours." It is in allusion to this practice of poets that the Duke in "Twelfth Night," apostrophising greatness... | |
 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pages
...your Lordship is without end; whereof this pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant I have of your honourable disposition,...yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater, my duty would show greater; mean177 time, as it is, it... | |
 | Elizabeth D. Harvey, Katharine Eisaman Maus - 1990 - 380 pages
...in effect, their owner. In dedicating Lucrèce to the Earl of Southampton, Shakespeare had written: "What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours, being part in all I have devoted yours."6 In the literature of patronage, this statement is conventional — in fact,... | |
 | Meredith Anne Skura - 1993 - 348 pages
...own merit; it depends instead on the patron's "disposition": "The warrant 1 have of your Honorable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance" (Luc. Ded. 24; italics added). While the first dedication reminded its reader of the poet's Apollonian... | |
 | Ronald P. Dore - 1994 - 342 pages
...did not feel ashamed of his humble deference when he dedicated his poem to the Earl of Southampton: 'What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours ... My duty ... is bound to your Lordship.' But England changed. Johnson felt... | |
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The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours ; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours. 
