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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... "
Shaksperean Statistics - Page 13
by Henry Thomas Hall - 1874 - 100 pages
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
.... ' ' Pf Hj f«t Jirst part, nor does he mention it as a play in two parts. His words arc these ; " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines ; so Shakspere, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : for...
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Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions ..., Volumes 9-10

Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 pages
...hony-tongued Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrecc, his sugred sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. « " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latincs, so Shakespeare, among yc. English, is the most exc'ellent in both kinds for the stage; for...
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Ancient Critical Essays Upon English Poets and Poësy, Volume 2

Joseph Haslewood - 1815 - 360 pages
...honytongued Shakespeare, witnes his Penus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &.c. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare, among y*. English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for...
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The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, Volume 4

Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 pages
...bonytongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, bis sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, &c. " 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 ; for...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 pages
...Pythagoras, so the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred sonnets among his private friends, &c."f A third tribute, and of a similar kind, was paid to the early efforts of our author in 1598,...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends," &c. The general style of these poems, and the numerous passages in them which remind us of our author's...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 23

1838 - 598 pages
...Cymbeline, Macheth, Julius Caisar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that '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.' Let us, in addition...
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The Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 23

1838 - 604 pages
...Macheth, Julius Cffisar, Antony and Cleopatra, . Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that '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.' Let us, in addition...
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Shakspeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet, Criticisms on ...

Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 pages
...entitled "A comparative discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets." " manner of speaking mild and obliging. That day she was dressed in white silk Latines, «o Shakspeare, among v English, is the most eicellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy,...
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Shakespeare's Autobiographical Poems: Being His Sonnets Clearly Developed ...

Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 pages
...Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous honey-tongued Shakespeare : witness his Venus and Adonis ; his Lucrece ; his sugred Sonnets among his private friends." Had he, in his poems, as well as in his dramas, " made a pish" at fashion, and followed nature, the...
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