 | William Shakespeare - 1593 - 138 pagine
...the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Fcnus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599, in John Weever's verses " Ad Gulielmum Shakespeare," the same epithet, " honey-ttngued,"... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - 1827 - 388 pagine
...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 Sonnets among his private friends," etc. — MEIIES'S WIT'S COMMON WEALTH. 10. MILTON'S POETICAL WORKS, with translations of the Italian and... | |
 | 1921 - 472 pagine
...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, etc. ... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 pagine
...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, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare,... | |
 | 1845 - 570 pagine
...live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspere ; witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. ''' As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspere,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 446 pagine
...in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends" Upon the question of the continuity of the Sonnets depend many important considerations with reference... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pagine
...live in Pythagorus, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspere; witness his 'Venus and Adonis,' his ' 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 Shakspere,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1857 - 410 pagine
...published in 1598, " 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." It was still a common practice for works to be circulated to a limited extent in manuscript while they... | |
 | Hugh James Rose - 1857 - 864 pagine
...in Pythagoras, so tbe sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspeare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 176 pagine
...Pythagoras, so the sweet witty £oul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey.tongued Shakspeare;—witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare... | |
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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, &c. 
