| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
.... ' ' Pf Hj f«t Jirst part, nor does he mention it as a play in two parts. His words arc these ; " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : for... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrecc, his sugred sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. « " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latincs, so Shakespeare, among yc. English, is the most exc'ellent in both kinds for the stage; for... | |
| Joseph Haslewood - English literature - 1815 - 360 pages
...honytongued Shakespeare, witnes his Penus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &.c. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare, among y*. English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
| Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...bonytongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, bis sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...Pythagoras, so the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred sonnets among his private friends, &c."f A third tribute, and of a similar kind, was paid to the early efforts of our author in 1598,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends," &c. The general style of these poems, and the numerous passages in them which remind us of our author's... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 598 pages
...Cymbeline, Macheth, Julius Caisar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that 'as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Let us, in addition... | |
| 1838 - 604 pages
...Macheth, Julius Cffisar, Antony and Cleopatra, . Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that 'as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Let us, in addition... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...entitled "A comparative discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets." " manner of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk Latines, «o Shakspeare, among v English, is the most eicellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy,... | |
| Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous honey-tongued Shakespeare : witness his Venus and Adonis ; his Lucrece ; his sugred Sonnets among his private friends." Had he, in his poems, as well as in his dramas, " made a pish" at fashion, and followed nature, the... | |
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