 | Homer Baxter Sprague - Dramatists, English - 1916 - 228 pages
...as a well known fact to account for his mastery of Latin — " He understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." As corroborative of the statement made by Beeston and Aubrey it is well to note that many pages, especially... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1927 - 936 pages
...the ghost in his own Hamlet.' Aubrey (who is usually unreliable) states, on the authority of Beeston, that ' he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.' Dr Johnson tells the story that 'his first expedient [on coining to London] was to wait at the door... | |
 | Frederick Samuel Boas - Drama - 1923 - 292 pages
...The antiquary, as already mentioned, had asserted that Shakespeare understood Latin pretty well : for he had been, in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country. In order to undermine Aubrey's credit, Farmer makes a series of 'animadversions' not only on this statement,... | |
 | North Carolina - 1924 - 574 pages
...Jonson says of him, that he bad 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 wonderfully interesting and convincing argument Professor Adams builds with this bit of very important... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - English drama - 1925 - 362 pages
...emphasis to Beeston's well-known report to Aubrey that Shakespeare "understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." That Shakespeare first joined Pembroke's rather than Strange's men, as has been usually accepted, we have... | |
 | Albert Harris Tolman - Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) - 1925 - 300 pages
...Jonson says of him, that he knew but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." In the margin Aubrey indicates that his information came "from Mr. Beeston." William Beeston, whom... | |
 | Joseph Quincy Adams - Dramatists, English - 1923 - 720 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." To make sure of his authority for this statement, so contradictory of the current belief that Shakespeare's... | |
 | Clara Longworth comtesse de Chambrun - 1927 - 392 pages
...Jonson says of him that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Lathi pretty well, for he had been, in his younger years, a schoolmaster in the country. [280] This information, adds Aubrey, was obtained from Mr. Beeston. Mr. Beeston, having managed one... | |
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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."! 
