 | William Shakespeare - 1593 - 138 pages
...English Poets with the Greet, Latin, and Italian Poets" ; "as the soul of Euphorbus," he observed, "was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty...mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Fcnus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 138 pages
...English Poets with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets " ; " as the soul of Euphorbus," he observed, " was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty...mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his fenus and Admis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...Warburton, Capel, Johnson, Steevens, Reed, Malone, &c. ing observation. " As the soul of Euphorbus wa» thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous honey-tongued Shakespeare: witness his Venus and Adonis; his Lucrece; his sacred sonnets... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...before, being mentioned by Meres in his Wit's Treasury, 1598 : " As the soul of Euphorbus (says he) was thought to live in 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,"... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - Great Britain - 1827 - 388 pages
...SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS.— Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, Sonnets, etc. crown 8vo. 8s. boards. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous and honey -tongued Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared... | |
 | Periodicals - 1828
...Milton. gHAKESPEARE'S POEMS. Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrèce, Sonnets, &c. crown 8vo. 8s. boards. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous and honey-tongucd Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrèce, his sugared... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...that on the 12th of June it was in circulation. " As the soul of Euphorbus," saith Meres, in 1598, " was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet, witty...soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis." Sir Henry Wotton writes from Eton College to the young... | |
 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...habiliments by Sir Philip Sydney, Spenser. Daniel, Drayton, Warner, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Chapman. ... As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. ... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...I have already given are amply sufficient to shew that Shakspeare fully appreciated his own * " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid liveв in the mellifluous honey. tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis ; his Lucrece; bis... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...written by one Mercs, who indulged himself in an allusion to the poet after tho following strain: — "As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras,...soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare." Witness, Mr. Meres proceeded, startling greatly all who i-id not heard of them, witness... | |
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As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras: so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends, fyc. 
