 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...  Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale - Page 39by William Shakespeare - 1872 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...sonnets among his private friends, &c. " As Plautus and Seneca ore accounted the best for comedy arid tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare, among the...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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 68 pages
...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus 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 the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - European literature - 1842 - 428 pages
...determining the age of Shakspeare's plays, both by what it contains and by what it omits. " As Plautus •nd Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakspeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witness... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...Winter's Tale, Act n., Sc. I. " as 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...dramas appeared in 1598 in a work by Francis Meres, in which we find these interesting passages : — "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 Comedy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...stands in the original, because it has no where, that we recollect, been quoted quite correctly. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare among ye English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for Comedy,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...stands in the original, because it has no where, that we recollect, been quoted quite correctly. " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latines : so Shakespeare among ye English is / the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 pages
...witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonnets among his private 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... | |
 | 1845 - 410 pages
...witness his ' Venus and Adonis,' his ' Lucrece,' his sugared sonneU among his private 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... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1880 - 1472 pages
...Jahre 1598 bereits gedichtet hatte. Die Stelle lautet bekanntlich folgendermassen : • „As Flaut us 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... | |
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