 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...not speak of it as a Jirst part, nor does he mention it as a play in two parts. His words are 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,... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Bibliography - 1809 - 914 pages
...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 - English literature - 1815 - 360 pages
...Shakespeare, witnes his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his priuate friends, 8cc. 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 702 pages
...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 Latiries, so Shakspeare, among ye English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pages
...contemplation, it may be presumed to have appeared in the latter part of the year 1598. His words are these: " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy, among the Latines, so Shakspeare, among the English, is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage : for... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Hunter - 1839 - 172 pages
...chapter contains several notices of Shakespeare, of which the following is the most remarkable : " As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespear among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy, witness... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1840 - 942 pages
...wor "Palladia Tamia; Wit's Treasury, of that opinion, follows : — The passage in Meres is as " ' As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy...Shakspere among the English is the most excellent in lioth kinds for the stage; for comedy, witness his ' Gentlemen of Verona,' his ' Errors,' his • Love's... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1841 - 84 pages
...Shakespeare, \viliies 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
