Materials for the Life of ShakespearePierce Butler University of North Carolina Press, 1930 - 200 pages |
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... Ovid , the most natural and witty of all poets ; and hence it was that Queen Elizabeth , coming into a grammar- school made this extemporary verse , " Persius a crab - staffe , bawdy Martial , Ovid a fine wag . " 3. Plautus , who was an ...
... Ovid , the most natural and witty of all poets ; and hence it was that Queen Elizabeth , coming into a grammar- school made this extemporary verse , " Persius a crab - staffe , bawdy Martial , Ovid a fine wag . " 3. Plautus , who was an ...
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... Ovid writ a Chronicle from the beginning of the world to his own time , that is , to the reign of Augustus the Emperor : so hath Harding the Chronicler ( after his manner of old harsh rhyming ) from Adam to his time , that is , to the ...
... Ovid writ a Chronicle from the beginning of the world to his own time , that is , to the reign of Augustus the Emperor : so hath Harding the Chronicler ( after his manner of old harsh rhyming ) from Adam to his time , that is , to the ...
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... Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey - tongued Shakespeare , witness his Venus and Adonis , his Lucrece , his sugared Sonnets among his private friends , etc. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the ...
... Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey - tongued Shakespeare , witness his Venus and Adonis , his Lucrece , his sugared Sonnets among his private friends , etc. As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the ...
Contents
EARLY BIOGRAPHY AND ANECDOTE | 1 |
CRITICISM AND REPUTATION AMONG | 49 |
SOCIAL STANDING AND PERSONAL REP | 94 |
Copyright | |
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