...another audacious aspect of this audacious poem favourable comparisons with, and indeed dismissals of 'all, that insolent Greece or haughty Rome / Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come' (lines 39-40). Though Shakespeare had 'small Latin, and less Greek' (line 31), the great classical...

...observes in his famous elegy, he equaled the ancients, but "when [his] Socks were on, / Leave [him] alone, for the comparison / Of all, that insolent.../ Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come" (lines 37-40). This opinion would have been particularly true of Shakespeare in 1599, before he had...

...of Cordoua dead, To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, And shake a stage: or, when thy Sockes were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. The first line of this quotation is sometimes...

...of Cordova dead, To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britaine, thou hast one to...

...would not seek For names; but callforth thun dering Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles to us; [...] to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage: or, when...socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Ofall that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sentforth [...] The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat...