| Sir Egerton Brydges - English prose literature - 1815 - 522 pages
...he truly entitle himself Pierce Pennyless, and be elsewhere styled the Gentleman Raggamuffin. NASH the ape of Greene, Greene the ape of Euphues, Euphues the ape of Envy, the three famous mammets of the press, and my three notorious feudists, draw all in a yoke :... | |
| Gabriel Harvey - 1815 - 286 pages
...he truly entitle himself Pierce Pennyless, and be elsewhere styled the Gentleman Raggamuffin. NASH the ape of Greene, Greene the ape of Euphues, Euphues the ape of Envy, the three famous mammets of the press, and my three notorious feudists, draw all in a yoke: but... | |
| Robert Greene - 1831 - 352 pages
...through these tracts the merit is very unequal ; some of them have a tenderness, a pastoral * " Nash, the Ape of Greene, Greene the Ape of Euphues, Euphues the Ape of Enuie, the three famous mammets of the presse." — G.Harvey's Pierces Supererogation, 1593, Sig. S4.... | |
| 1867 - 568 pages
...alliteration. Harvey alludes to this in his " Pierce's Supererogation," where he writes : — " Nash, the Ape of Greene, Greene, the Ape of Euphues, Euphues, the Ape of Enuie, the three famous mammets of the presse ;" at the which sentence the virtuous Mr. Nash waxed... | |
| John Lyly - Bible - 1868 - 512 pages
...an Hatchet of 1589: we jot the following fample of the amenities of literature then current. Nalh, the Ape of Greene, Greene the Ape of Euphues, Euphues, the Ape of Enuie. /. 141. In 1596, [Epiftle dated Nov. 5], Lodge, in a work entitled Wits Mifcrie, and the Worlds... | |
| John Lyly - 1869 - 544 pages
...with an Hatchet of 1589 : we jot the following fample of the amenities of literature then current. Nafh, the Ape of Greene, Greene the Ape of Euphues, Euphues, the Ape of Enuie. /,. 141. In 1596, [Epiftle dated Nov. 5], Lodge, in a work entitled Wits Miferie, and the Worlds... | |
| William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...from one nothing may be taken away, to the other nothing may be added. — William Webbc, 1586. Nash the Ape of Greene, Greene the Ape of Euphues, Euphues the Ape of Ennuie. — G. Hervey. Lyly famous for facility in discourse. — Lodge, 1596. Eloquent and witty John... | |
| Great Britain - 1871 - 970 pages
..." the famous for facility in discourse," Nash, who is thus spoken of by Gabriel Harvey — " Nash ; the ape of Greene, Greene the ape of Euphues, Euphues the ape of Envy." John Eliot, author of "Orthoëpia Galilea," " Fruits for the French," &e. Jonson, Drayton, and... | |
| Christianity - 1875 - 620 pages
...'"Virgil?" take the Earl of Surrey; "Catullus?" Shakc' speare.' Gabriel Harvey, who held up ' Nash ' as ' the ape of Greene, ' Greene the ape of Euphues, Euphues the ape of Envie,' and all as ' the three great mamrnets of the presse,' in 1592 issued ' four letters and certain sonnets... | |
| Henry Allon - 1875 - 646 pages
...Virgil ?" take the Earl of Surrey ; " Catullus ?" Shakespeare.' Gabriel Harvey, who held up 'Nash 'as ' the ape of Greene, Greene the ape of Euphues, Euphues the ape of Envie,' and all as ' the three great mammets of the presse,' in 1592 issued ' four letters and certain sonnets... | |
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