 | Jacob Feis - Hamlet (Legendary character) - 1884 - 264 pages
...for the stage.' He then mentions twelve of his plays,1 and thus concludes his eulogy : — ' As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus...speak Latin : so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrases if they would speake English.' The envious Jonson who pledges himself,... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1884 - 650 pages
...Richard the 3,' ' Henry the 4,' ' King John,' ' Andronicns,' and his ' Romeo and Juliet.' As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus' tongue if they would speakc Latin, so I say that the Muses wonld speak with Shakespeare's, for fine-filed phrase, if they... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1857 - 596 pages
...Andronicus,' and his ' Romeo and Juliet.' ' As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus's tongue, if they would speak Latin; so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine-hied phrase, if they would speak English.' Here is Shakespeare, at the age of thirty-four,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 pages
...King John, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet. "As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue, if they would speak Latin ; so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeare's fine-filed phrase, if they would speak English." The nature of this writer's purpose... | |
 | Gerald Massey - 1888 - 512 pages
...impressed with the English glory of Shakspeare's language. " As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue if they would speak Latin, so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakspeare's fine, filed phrase, if they would speak English." And of the Poems and Sonnets Meres remarks... | |
 | James Appleton Morgan - 1888 - 360 pages
...Latinos, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus' tongue, if they would speake Latin, so I say that the Muses would speake with Shakespeare's finefiled phrase, if they would... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1889 - 444 pages
...Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King John, Titus Andronicus and his Romeo and Juliet. — As Epiuss Stole5 said that the Muses would speake with Plautus tongue,...Shakespeares fine filed phrase, if they would speake English. — As Ovid saith of his worke; — Jamque opus exegi, quod nee Jovis ira, nee ignis, = Nec poterit... | |
 | Frank Walters - 1889 - 198 pages
...King John, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet. As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue, if they would speak Latin, so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakspere's fine filed phrase, if they would speak English.' That is a most valuable piece of evidence... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1889 - 392 pages
...despaires day, but for thy Volumes light. * Man. t Casts (in his mind), thinks, purposes. J " As Epius Stolo said, that the Muses would speake with Plautus tongue, if they would speake Latin : so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeares fine filed phrase, if they would... | |
 | Henry Morley - Criticism, interpretation, etc - 1890 - 1142 pages
...the 2, Richard the 3, Henry the 4, King John, Titus Andronicus, and his Romeo and Juliet. As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus'...tongue, if they would speak Latin, so I say that the Musei would speak with Shakespeare's fine filed phrase, if they would speake English." In 1598 Shakespeare... | |
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As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speake with Plautus tongue, if they would speak Latin; so I say that the Muses would speak with Shakespeares fine filed phrase, if they would speake English. 
