His comoedies will remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum. Now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty yeares hence they will not be understood. Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspearevon John Britton - 1814 - 80 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| John Walker - 1813 - 1014 Seiten
...remaine witt as long as the English tongue is understood for that he handles mores hominum; now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons...they will not be understood. Though, as Ben Jonson saves of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 Seiten
...remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons...as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little Laline and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 Seiten
...remain wilt as long as the Bnglish tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum: now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons...hence they will not be understood. *' Though, as Ben Jouson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and Icsse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 Seiten
...remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood. ' Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 Seiten
...remain witt as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not he understood. ' Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 Seiten
...remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores ttominum; now, our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood." This is precisely the case with Jonson as compared with Shakspere;... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 Seiten
...understood, for that he handles probably Dogberry, in ' Much Ado about Nothine." mores hominum : now our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood. ' Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little... | |
| 1845 - 410 Seiten
...remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominwn ; now, our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood." This is precisely the case with Jonson as compared with Shakspere... | |
| 1845 - 570 Seiten
...remain wit as long as the English tongue is understood, for that he handles mores hominum ; now, our present writers reflect so much upon particular persons and coxcombeities, that twenty years hence they will not be understood." This is precisely the case with Jonson as compared with Shakspere... | |
| James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1848 - 378 Seiten
...persons and eoxeombeities, that twenty yeares henee they will not be understood. Though, as Ben Johnson sayes of him that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understode Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger yeares a sehoolmaster in the eountrey.... | |
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