His comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum. Now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood. 'Brief Lives': I-Y - Pagina 229di John Aubrey, Andrew Clark - 1898Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| John Walker - 1813 - 1014 pagine
...comcedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood for that he handles mores hominum; now our present writers reflect so much upon particular...hence they will not be understood. Though, as Ben Jonson saves of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pagine
...comredies will remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular...hence they will not be understood. " Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little Laline and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pagine
...comoedies will remain wilt as long as the Bnglish tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum: now our present writers reflect so much upon particular...hence they will not be understood. *' Though, as Ben Jouson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and Icsse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well,... | |
| John Britton - 1814 - 74 pagine
...remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now. onr present writers reflect so much upon particular persons...hence they will not be understood. " Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pagine
...comoedies will remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood. ' Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pagine
...comoedies will remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not he understood. ' Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pagine
...comedies will remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores ttominum; now, our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood." This is precisely the case with Jonson as compared with Shakspere;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pagine
...is understood, for that he handles probably Dogberry, in ' Much Ado about Nothine." mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood. ' Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little... | |
| 1845 - 410 pagine
...comedies will remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominwn ; now, our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood." This is precisely the case with Jonson as compared with Shakspere... | |
| 1845 - 570 pagine
...comedies will remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum ; now, our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood." This is precisely the case with Jonson as compared with Shakspere... | |
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