 | Henry Charles Beeching - Clergy, Writings of - 1906 - 364 pages
...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." A youth of proved abilities, with a known taste for letters, might well have been employed as usher... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1906 - 870 pages
...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.' A youth of proved abilities, with a known taste for letters, might well have been employed as usher... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - Performing Arts - 1906 - 282 pages
...language, he "did act exceedingly well," far better than Jonson; "he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country;" " he was a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit;"... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - Authors, English - 1907 - 260 pages
...employment he followed when he left school we cannot certainly know. Aubrey reports, on good authority, that he had been " in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." There is nothing conclusive to be said against this; and nothing to object to Aubrey's other statement... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1909 - 176 pages
...deflendus. Why does not the Canon finish the sentence? Aubrey wrote, "He understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country " ! Does the Canon accept that statement too? Does he make "Shakespeare" a provincial dominie teaching... | |
 | Fisheries - 1909 - 174 pages
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 | 1914 - 1068 pages
...to Shakespeare's learning, a report came through Aubrey that he " understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." This may mean that he was an AB Cdarius or pupil teacher. We remember Ben Jonson's saying as to his... | |
 | 1914 - 884 pages
...to Shakespeare's learning, a report came through Aubrey that he " understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." This may mean that he was an AB Cdarius or pupil teacher. We' remember Ben Jonson's saying as to his... | |
 | Thomas Kay - "Grafton" portrait of William Shakespeare - 1914 - 126 pages
...another of Aubrey's statements, derived from Beeston, that Shakespeare "understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." The year 1582 brought the son of the Warwickshire yeoman to the turning point in his career. He then... | |
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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."! 
