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" As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare: witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, &c. "
The Aldus Shakespeare: With Copious Notes and Comments - Page 12
by William Shakespeare - 1909
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The Temple Shakespeare, Volume 39

William Shakespeare - 1896 - 138 pages
...book have plac't ;" in the same year Francis Meres published his famous " Comparative Discourse of oar English Poets with the Greek, Latin, and Italian Poets...mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his fenus and Admis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599,...
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Shakespeare's Venvs & Adonis

William Shakespeare - 1593 - 138 pages
...year Francis Meres published his famous "Comparative Discoursc of our English Poets with the Greet, Latin, and Italian Poets" ; "as the soul of Euphorbus,"...mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Fcnus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599,...
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...Warburton, Capel, Johnson, Steevens, Reed, Malone, &c. ing observation. " As the soul of Euphorbus wa» thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous honey-tongued Shakespeare: witness his Venus and Adonis; his Lucrece; his sacred sonnets...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 20

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 486 pages
...before, being mentioned by Meres in his Wit's Treasury, 1598 : " As the soul of Euphorbus (says he) was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty...soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugred Sonnets among his private friends,"...
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The History of England: In Five Volumes

Tobias George Smollett - Great Britain - 1827 - 388 pages
...Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, Sonnets, etc. crown 8vo. 8s. boards. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous and honey -tongued Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared...
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The Foreign Review

Periodicals - 1828
...Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrèce, Sonnets, &c. crown 8vo. 8s. boards. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous and honey-tongucd Shakespeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrèce, his sugared...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...that on the 12th of June it was in circulation. " As the soul of Euphorbus," saith Meres, in 1598, " was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet, witty...soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis." Sir Henry Wotton writes from Eton College to the young...
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 293

Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...Sydney, Spenser. Daniel, Drayton, Warner, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Chapman. ... As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty...Shakespeare, witness his Venus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. ... As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for...
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The Court Magazine and Belle Assemblée, Volume 2

English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...are amply sufficient to shew that Shakspeare fully appreciated his own * " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid liveв in the mellifluous honey. tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and Adonis ; his Lucrece; bis...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 26

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...indulged himself in an allusion to the poet after tho following strain: — "As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty...soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare." Witness, Mr. Meres proceeded, startling greatly all who i-id not heard of them, witness...
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