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 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 Seiten
...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 comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 Seiten
...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 twelve of the Poet's dramas by title, in proof of his point. His list, however,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1816 - 674 Seiten
...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 witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Lout: labors lost, his Lime labors wonne,... | |
 | 1921 - 472 Seiten
...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] . . . As Epius Stolo said that the Muses would speak with Plautus' tongue,... | |
 | 1838 - 604 Seiten
...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 to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
 | 1838 - 598 Seiten
...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 to what Shakspere had written when he received from Francis Meres this contemporary... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 Seiten
...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 his Gentlemen of Verona, his Errors, his Love's Labour Lost, his Love's Labour... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 440 Seiten
...Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage; for comedy, witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona,' his ' Errors,' his ' Love Labours Lost,' his ' Love... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 Seiten
...Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for tragedy and comedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage :" and " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid... | |
 | 1845 - 570 Seiten
...friends, &c. ''' 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 ; for comedy, witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona," his ' Errors,' his ' Love Labours Lost,' his ' Love... | |
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