 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 sivua
...Seneca. Their reputation was still great at the close of the century, when we find Meres writing that ' as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' ' Seneca,' says Polonius, ' cannot be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.' The first, or ecclesiastical... | |
 | 1859 - 650 sivua
...Seneca. Their reputation was still great at the close of the century, when wo find Meres writing that ' as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' ' Seneca,' says Polonius, ' cannot be too heavy, nor Plautue too light.' The first, or ecclesiastical... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 584 sivua
...Seneca. Their reputation was still great at the close of the century, when we find Meres writing that ' as Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage.' ' Seneca,' says Polonius, ' cannot' be too heavy, nor Plautus too light.' The first, or ecclesiastical... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1859 - 166 sivua
...Pythagoras, so the sweet, witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, he adds, " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latiues, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage: for comedy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 176 sivua
...Shakspeare;—witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared 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: for Comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Lovetabor's lost, his Love labour's wonne,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1861 - 410 sivua
...Shakespeare ; witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private 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 comedy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 sivua
...Shakespeare ; witnes his Venus and Adonit, his Lucrèce, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends, &c. " Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for coined... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1862 - 874 sivua
...; witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrèce,' liis sugred sonnets among his private friends." "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." And this... | |
 | Robert E. Hunter - 1864 - 296 sivua
...Shakespeare ; witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. "As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1864 - 586 sivua
...Shakespeare; witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrèce, his eugred sonnets among his prívale friends, etc. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, го Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for... | |
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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... 
