 | 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... | |
 | Literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...that he "did act exceedingly well," far better than Jonson; that "he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster In the country;" and "he was a handsome, well-shaped man. very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Dramatists, English - 1995 - 424 pages
...that 'he was wont to go to his native country once a year'; that 'he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country'; and that on his journeys between London and Warwickshire he used to stay at a tavern in Oxford kept... | |
 | James G. McManaway - Drama - 1994 - 64 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." Such a youthful occupation is entirely compatible with scenes in several early plays. Holofernes in... | |
 | John Aubrey - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 340 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 — from Mr Beeston. Sir Philip Sidney 1554-86 Soldier and poet. He was related to the Herberts of... | |
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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."! 
