 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - 454 pagine
...Shakespeare has this distinction, that while he shares equally all other praise, it is said of him, that, "as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." * There... | |
 | William Robson Arrowsmith - 1865 - 376 pagine
...honey-tonguedShakspeere,witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins: so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for Comedy,... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pagine
...Adonis," his " Lucrèce," his sugared "Sonnets" among his private friends [was Meres one ?]' . . . ' As Plautus and Seneca, are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For comedy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 362 pagine
...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 among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for comedy... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 588 pagine
...publications, is undoubtedly a forgery : see Life of Peele, p. 327, prefixed to his Works, ed. Dyce, 1861. for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare...excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witnes his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love Labors Lost, his Love Labours Wonne, his Midsummers... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 750 pagine
...Seneca," writes Mr. Meres, "are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines, so Shakspeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." Further, this first eulogist of our bard avers that " the Muses would speak with Shakspeare's fine... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 752 pagine
...among the most excellent of dramatic works then known. " As Plautus and Seneca," writes Mr. Meres, "are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines, so Shakspeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." Further, this first... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pagine
...questionably, that " as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for tragedy and comedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : " and " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 532 pagine
...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, BO Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 534 pagine
...witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrèce/ hu sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
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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... 
