 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 sidor
.... ' ' 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... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1809 - 914 sidor
...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... | |
 | Joseph Haslewood - 1815 - 360 sidor
...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... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 sidor
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 sidor
...entitled " A comparative discourse of our English Poets, with the Greeke, Latine, and Italian Poets." " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakspeare, among yc English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy,... | |
 | 1921 - 472 sidor
...witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. ... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. [Mentions Titus Andronicus] . . . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue,... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 sidor
...Treasury, printed at the close of 1598. Speaking of Shakespeare as a dramatist, his words are these : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour... | |
 | 1838 - 598 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 604 sidor
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1838 - 744 sidor
...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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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... 
