 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 lapas
.... ' ' 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 lapas
...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... | |
 | Joseph Haslewood - 1815 - 360 lapas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 lapas
...print. In 1598, he put forth a book entitled PaUadis Tamia, Wifs Treasury, which has the following : " 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." The writer then instances... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 lapas
...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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. [Mentions Titus Andronicus]... | |
 | 1838 - 598 lapas
...Cymbeline, Macheth, Julius Caisar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that 'as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Let us, in addition to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
 | 1838 - 604 lapas
...Macheth, Julius Cffisar, Antony and Cleopatra, . Coriolanus, and Othello. Meres said, in 1598, that 'as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' Let us, in addition to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 lapas
...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 and tragedy, among the Latins ; so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy, witness... | |
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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... 
