 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 Shakspeareper John Britton - 1814 - 80 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | John Walker - 1813 - 1014 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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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