 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 596 页
...700, states, on the authority of one Mr. Beeston, that Shakespeare " understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country ; " and Mr. Collier thinks it possible that, being a young man of abilities, and quick to acquire knowledge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 页
...1700, states, on the authority of one Mr. Beeston, that Shakespeare " understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country ; " and Mr. Collier thinks it possible that, being a young man of abilities, and quick to acquire knowledge,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 页
...1700, states, on the authority of one Mr. Beeston, that Shakespeare " understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country ; " and Mr. Collier thinks it possible that, being a young man of abilities, and quick to acquire knowledge,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 486 页
...1700, states, on the authority of one Bceston, that "Shakespeare understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." The statement may fairly challenge some respect, inasmuch as persons of the, name of Beeston were connected... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1888 - 606 页
...Shakespeare's dexterity in Latin to this circumstance, and states that the poet knew Latin very well, "for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." This statement is as uncritical as can be. What need was there for a village schoolmaster to know Latin,... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 页
...style, and graced his slaughter by a speech. Aubrey tells us that he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.! His * The matter of this sketch is derived from the works of Shakspeare ; " The Life of Shakespeare,... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 页
...style, and graced his slaughter by a speech. Aubrey tells us that he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.! His * The matter of this sketch is derived from the works of Shakspeare ; " The Life of Shakespeare,... | |
 | Charles Isaac Elton, Andrew Lang - 1904 - 544 页
...informant about Shakespeare teaching Latin grammar. Shakespeare "understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country — from Mr. . . . Beeston."2 The story of Shakespeare's organising the horseboys' brigade came down... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1904 - 118 页
...YORK MDCCCCV Jt- V- fr. Copyright, 1904, by JOHN LANE Shakespeare understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country, — Aubrey. He was much given to all unluckincss in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1904 - 130 页
...1904, by JOHN LANE THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, USA Shakespeare understood Latin pretty-well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country. — Aubrey. He was much given to all unluckiness in stealing venison and rabbits, particularly from... | |
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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."! 
