 Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Paccuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage : or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth,...  The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All the Various ... - Page 526by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 pages
...and Sophocles, to us, Pacuvius, Aceius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or when thy socks were on, Leave...haughty Rome, Sent forth, or since did from their aslic-s come. Seward has a distich on the cities which claim Homer's birth : Seven wealthy towns contend... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pages
...and Sophocles, to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave...insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since diil from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou bust one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - Epigrams - 1870 - 652 pages
...dead. To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or when thy sucks were on, I/cave thee alone ; for the comparison Of all that insolent...haughty Rome, Sent forth, or since did from their ashes uome. Sewnrd has a distich on the cities which claim Homer's birth : Seven wealthy towns contend for... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1870 - 644 pages
...SHAKESPEARE. Soul of the age ! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage ! My Shakespeare rise ! * * * * Triumph my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not for an age, but for all time! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When, like Apollo, he came... | |
 | Henry Thomas Hall - 1871 - 294 pages
...poets,) was a sincere lover of freedom, not the turbulent freedom of a wild, impassioned, uneducated * "Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe." To the Memory of Shakspere. mob, but true freedom, such as can only be found where all have a knowledge... | |
 | Book - Birthdays - 1872 - 326 pages
...and Sophocles to us ; Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova dead, To live again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave...to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. * Ironical allusions. He vi as not of an age, hut for all time ! And all the muses still were in their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1872 - 92 pages
...and Sophocles, to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave...come. Triumph, my Britain ! thou hast one to show, He was not of an age, but for all time ! And all the Muses still were in their prime, When like Apollo... | |
 | American literature - 1880 - 592 pages
...or haughty Rome " ; he declares (in poetry) of Shakespeare that he may be left alone — " . . . for comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come." And yet he never, while going from one to the other, mentions Shakespeare to Bacon or Bacon to Shakespeare... | |
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