Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of Elizabeth |
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... Greek authors , and particularly Dares Phrygius , in another ( although I will not pretend to say in what language he read them ) . The modern Italian writers of novels he was manifestly acquainted with ; and we may conclude him to be ...
... Greek authors , and particularly Dares Phrygius , in another ( although I will not pretend to say in what language he read them ) . The modern Italian writers of novels he was manifestly acquainted with ; and we may conclude him to be ...
Page 9
... Greek , Latin , English , Italian , Spanish , and German belle lettrists - the last fifteen years , in addition , still more intensely , in the ana- lysis of the laws of life and reason , as they exist in man ; and that upon every step ...
... Greek , Latin , English , Italian , Spanish , and German belle lettrists - the last fifteen years , in addition , still more intensely , in the ana- lysis of the laws of life and reason , as they exist in man ; and that upon every step ...
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... Greek , From thence to honour thee I would not seek For names . The first of these lines has been wrested in every possible way , to make it applicable to William Shakespeare , without success ; and though at first sight it might seem ...
... Greek , From thence to honour thee I would not seek For names . The first of these lines has been wrested in every possible way , to make it applicable to William Shakespeare , without success ; and though at first sight it might seem ...
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... Greek , and yet be pronounced by so finished and critical a scholar as Ben Jonson undoubtedly was , to have " small Latin and less Greek . " The observation , and the mode of intro- ducing it in the midst of a panygeric , are highly ...
... Greek , and yet be pronounced by so finished and critical a scholar as Ben Jonson undoubtedly was , to have " small Latin and less Greek . " The observation , and the mode of intro- ducing it in the midst of a panygeric , are highly ...
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... Greek , " but simply to suggest , that these lines might possibly refer to him . Shaw , in his Outlines of General Literature , says of Bacon : - " The Latin style is in the highest degree , concise , vigorous , and accurate , though by ...
... Greek , " but simply to suggest , that these lines might possibly refer to him . Shaw , in his Outlines of General Literature , says of Bacon : - " The Latin style is in the highest degree , concise , vigorous , and accurate , though by ...
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