An Essay on the Learning of ShakespeareJ.J. Tourneisen, 1800 - 96 pages |
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acquaintance afcribed affures againſt alfo almoft Anacreon ancient argument called claffick comedy criticks Dares Phrygius defire edition Effay elfe Engliſh Epiftle expreffion faid fame Farmer fays feem felfe fhall fhould fince firft firſt folio fome fometimes fpeare French ftanding ftill ftory fubject fuch fufficient fufpect fuppofed fyllables Gabriel Harvey George Peele Greek Hamlet hath haue Henry Heywood himſelf Holinfhed inftance Italian John John Taylor Johnſon Jonfon King laft language Latin Latin language learning of Shakspeare likewife Macbeth matter miſtake moft MONARCHO moſt muft muſt myſelf obfervation occafion original Ovid paffage perfuade Plautus play pleaſed Plutarch poem poet poffibly prefent prefixed printed publiſhed purpoſe queftion quoted reafon Salike Saxo Grammaticus ſeems Shak Shakspeare's Shrew Sir Thomas Sir Thomas Hanmer Spenfer Taming Terence thefe theſe thofe thoſe thou Timon of Athens tranflation Upton uſed verfe whofe word writers Yorkshire Tragedy
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Page 15 - ... peruse over before, once or twice, the chapters and homilies, to the intent they might read to the better understanding of the people.
Page 75 - It is evident" we have been told, " that he was no-t unacquainted with the Italian :" but let us inquire into the evidence. Certainly some Italian words and phrases appear in the works of...
Page 70 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Page 61 - Pace non trovo , e non ho da far guerra ; E temo, e spero; ed ardo, e son un ghiaccio ; E volo sopra '1 cielo , e giaccio in terra ; . E nulla stringo, e tutto '1 mondo abbraccio. Tal m' ha in prigion, che non m'apre né serra ; Né per suo mi riten , né scioglie il laccio; E non m...
Page 67 - A compendious or briefe Examination of certayne ordinary Complaints of diuers of our Countrymen in these our...
Page 35 - But we are not answerable for Mr. Gildon's ignorance. He might have been told of Caxton and Douglas, of Surrey and Stanyhurst, of Phaer and Twyne, of Fleming and Golding, of Turberville and Churchyard ! But these fables were easily known, without the help of either the originals or the translations. The fate of Dido had been sung very early by Gower, Chaucer, and Lydgate ; Marlowe...
Page 50 - Tulle / and the boke of dyodorus syculus. and diuerse other werkes oute of latyn in to englysshe not in rude and olde langage. but in polysshed and ornate termes craftely. as he that hath redde vyrgyle / ouyde. tullye. and all the other noble poetes and oratours / to me vnknowen: And also he hath redde the ix.
Page 87 - He remembered perhaps enough of his school-boy learning to put the Hig, hag, hog, into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans ; and might pick up in the writers of the time, or the course of his conversation, a familiar phrase or two of French or Italian : but his studies were most demonstratively confined to nature and his own language.
Page 59 - ... volumina, are almost annihilated. Mr. Ames, who searched after books of this sort with the utmost avidity, most certainly had not seen them, when he published his Typographical Antiquities; as appears from his blunders about them: and possibly I myself...
Page 94 - Greek** seems absolutely to decide that he had some knowledge of both; and if we may judge by our own time a man who has any Greek is seldom without a very competent share of Latin ; and yet such a man is very likely to study Plutarch in English, and to read translations of Ovid.