| William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pages
...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 - Biography - 1867 - 532 pages
...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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 534 pages
...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...writer : — " 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, witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona,' his ' Errors,' his ' Love's Labour's Lost,' his ' Love Labours... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...other poems. But, for his dramas, he is raised above every native contemporary and predecessor : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins ; so Shakspere among the English is ih,e most excellent in both kirids for the stage." These... | |
| Richard Grant White - Private libraries - 1870 - 284 pages
...among his private friends, &c." And again, " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage, &c." (p. 623.) 2361 MICHEL'S, DAN., Agenbite of Inwit, or Remorse of Conscience, in the Kentish dialect,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pages
...following: "As 1'lautus and Seneca are accounted the best tor comedy and tragedy among the Latins ; so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage." The writer then specifies by title the three plays already named, and also nine others, in confirmation... | |
| England - 1871 - 836 pages
...and Adonis," " Lucrece," and the " Sonnets," at least twelve of his incomparable plays. " As I'lautns and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines," says Francis Meres, " so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1871 - 996 pages
...published in 15 1 J8, The Two Gentlemen of Verona stands first in the list. He says : " As Hlaulus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins j so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For comedy,... | |
| American literature - 1879 - 592 pages
...: witness his "Venus and Adonis," his " Lucrece," his sugred sonnets among his private friends.' ' As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' And this was before his greatest works were written. Meres adds : ' As Epius Stolo said that the Muses... | |
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