 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...adumbration of the truth. Aubrey's evidence is positive, — "he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country;" and is entitled to as much credit as any other tradition he has preserved , neither involving in itself... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 380 pages
...adumbration of the truth. Aubrey's evidence is positive, — " he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country;" and is entitled to as much credit as any other tradition he has preserved, neither involving in itself... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...besides his being born ten years after the poet's death) that " he understood Latin pretty well ; for he had been, in his younger years, a schoolmaster in the country." Dr. Farmer treats Aubrey's tradition with contempt, arguing, that Shakespeare, having married before... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...neighbours of the poet, it is positively asserted, that our bard "understood Latin pretty well, for ant expedition, crossed over to France or Italy, and gave themse * On the first of these data, it has been observed by Mr. Malone, in his "Attempt to ascertain the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...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. iii. 307. In order to reconcile these conflicting testimonies,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 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."! * " I think it was Midsummer night that he happened to lie there." f From Mr. Beeston. . END OF BOOK... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...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. iii. 307. In order to reconcile these conflicting testimonies,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1845 - 570 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." His precocious gravity as a schoolmaster must have been as wonderful as his poetical power; for Aubrey... | |
 | 1845 - 410 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." His precocious gravity as a schoolmaster must have been as wonderful as his poetical power; for Aubrey... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...his own locality, the enmity of a neighbouring justice would be, especially if, as Aubrey tells us, " he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." " How would it have cheered the spirit of the youthful bard," says Washingtou Irving, " when, wandering... | |
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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."! 
