 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 138 pages
...Poets " ; " as the soul of Euphorbus," he observed, " was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his fenus and Admis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1593 - 138 pages
...Poets" ; "as the soul of Euphorbus," he observed, "was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his Fcnus and Adonis, his Lucrece, his sugared Sonnets among his private friends," etc. Again, in 1599,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pages
...following passage of the work here mentioned, to have been personally acquainted with Shakspeare : " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and lioney-tongued Shakspeare. Witness his Venus and Adonis,... | |
 | Tobias George Smollett - Great Britain - 1827 - 388 pages
...9. SHAKESPEARE'S POEMS.— Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, Sonnets, etc. crown 8vo. 8s. boards. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous and honey -tongued Shakespeare. Witness his Venus... | |
 | Periodicals - 1828
...Milton. gHAKESPEARE'S POEMS. Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrèce, Sonnets, &c. crown 8vo. 8s. boards. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in the mellifluous and honey-tongucd Shakespeare. Witness his Venus... | |
 | Zoology - 1921 - 472 pages
...habiliments by Sir Philip Sydney, Spenser. Daniel, Drayton, Warner, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Chapman. ... As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his Venus and... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 388 pages
...three I have already given are amply sufficient to shew that Shakspeare fully appreciated his own * " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid liveв in the mellifluous honey. tongued Shakspeare : witness his Venus and... | |
 | 1835 - 466 pages
...written by one Meres, who indulged himself in an illusion to the poet after the following strain : — " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-toagned Shakspeare." Witness, Mr. Meres proceeded,... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1835 - 744 pages
...written by one Mercs, who indulged himself in an allusion to the poet after tho following strain: — "As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakspeare." Witness, Mr. Meres proceeded,... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1841 - 440 pages
...habiliments, by Sir Philip Sidney, Spenser, Daniel, Drayton, Warner, Shakespeare, Marlow, and Chapman. " As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare ; witness his ' Venus and... | |
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As the soul of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweet witty soul of Ovid lives in mellifluous and honey-tongued Shakespeare, witness his " Venus and Adonis," his " Lucrece," his sugared sonnets among his private friends, etc. 
