...would not seek For names; but call forth thund'ring Aeschylus. Euripides, and Sophocles to us. ... Or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. In Milton's four lines we seem to find several aspects of Jonson which are daunting to the general...

...the actor with the author, for such an expression as occurs in the following: — Or when thy Sockes were on Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come, — might be claimed to be a mere figure...

...tread And shake a scène : or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for thé comparison Of ail, that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes corne. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom ail scènes of Europe homage owe. He was...

...but call forth thundering /Eschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Facuvius, Accius, him of Cordoba dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thec alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did...

...would not seek For names ; but call for thundering Euripides and Sophocles to us ; Pacuriua, Acoius, him of Cordova dead To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake the stage. " But stay, I see thee in the hemisphere Advanced, and made a constellation there I Shine...

...of Cordova dead, To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from the ashes come. (Ungathered Verse, 26. 25-40) Modern readers...

...of Cordova dead, To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Thyestes: At a banquet Thyestes was served...

...another audacious aspect of this audacious poem favourable comparisons with, and indeed dismissals of 'all, that insolent Greece or haughty Rome / Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come' (lines 39-40). Though Shakespeare had 'small Latin, and less Greek' (line 31), the great classical...

...observes in his famous elegy, he equaled the ancients, but "when [his] Socks were on, / Leave [him] alone, for the comparison / Of all, that insolent.../ Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come" (lines 37-40). This opinion would have been particularly true of Shakespeare in 1599, before he had...

...seek For names; but call forth thundering Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Acdus, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. The comment about Shakespeare's "small knowledge" of Latin and Greek cannot be taken seriously. Nowadays,...