 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...last performance of I think, I have been told, that he left near three hundred pounds to a sister. He understood Latin pretty well, FOR he had been in his younger years a School-Master in the country," I will be short in my animadversions ; and take them in their order. The account of the trade of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 672 pages
...native country once a yeare. I think I have been told that he left near 300!. to a filler. He underftood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a fchool-raafter in the country." Many traditional anecdotes, though not perfectly accurate, contain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1793 - 594 pages
...country once a yeare. I thinke I have been told that he left near 300!. to a fifter. He underftood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a fchoolmafter in the country." Many traditional anecdotes, though not perfectly accurate, contain an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 570 pages
...country once a yeare. I thinke I have been told that he left near 300!. to a fifter. He underftood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a fchoolmafter in the country." Many traditional anecdotes, though not perfectly accurate, contain an... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...his native country once a yeare. I thinke I have been told that he left near 3001. to a sister. He understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." Many traditional anecdotes, though not perfectly accurate, contain an adumbration of the truth. It... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...Though, 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 in the country." See Letters from the Bodleian Library, &c. Vol. iii. p. 307. The above account, though apparently sanctioned... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 74 pages
...Though, as Ben Jonson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." See Letters from the Bodleian Library, &c. VoUii. p. 307. The above account, thoug* in bis remarks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...Though, as Ben Jouson sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and Icsse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." See Letters from the Bodleian Library, &c. Vol. iii. p. 307. The above account, though apparently sanctioned... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...harvest." The honest but credulous gossip Aubrey, who died about 1700, states, on the authority of one Beeston, that " Shakespeare understood Latin pretty...younger years a schoolmaster in the country." The statement may fairly challenge some respect, inasmuch as persons of the name of Beeston were connected... | |
 | 1818 - 574 pages
...early period from the information of the neighbours of the port," it is asserted that Shakspeare " understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country." But because Shakspeare uses technical terms of law, as he uses all others, with an adroit familiarity... | |
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Though, as Ben Jonson says of him that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country. 
