...if they should have neede — yet English Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences ; rt. Ban. There if I grow, The harvest is your own. Dun. ' My plenteous joys, Wa " In B the books of the Stationers* Company, this play was entered by James Roberts, July 26, 1602,...

...with the endeavours of art, that could scarcely Latinise their neck-verse if they should have need ; yet English Seneca read by candle-light yields many...— I should say handfuls — of tragical speeches.' Some have supposed that the allusion here is to Shakespeare and his tragedy of Hamlet, but it more...

...by candle light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar, and so forth ; and if you intreat him fair, in a frosty morning, he -will afford you...Hamlets; I should say handfuls of tragical speeches. But O grief! Tempus edax rerum — what is that will always last ? The sea exhaled by drops will in...

...scarcely Latinize their neck- verse if they should have need ; yet English Seneca, read by candle light, yields many good sentences, as blood is a beggar, and so forth ; and if you intreat him fair, in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets; I should say handfuls of tragical...

...the application of the passage may be thought to lie in the close, as the sting in the wasp's tail. " Yet English Seneca, read by candlelight, yields many...Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches." But this burst of sound and fury signifies nothing in connection with Shakespeare. His plays, indeed,...

...universities, in which, undoubtedly alluding to Shakspeare, he says : " English Seneca, read by candle light, yields many good sentences, as ' blood is a beggar,'...Hamlets, ' I should say handfuls of tragical speeches." At this time Shakspeare was a shareholder in the theatre, and from the title page to " Hamlet," published...

...Seneca, read by candle-light, yields many good sentences, as, Blood is a beggar, &c. ; and if you intreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole...Hamlets, — I should say, handfuls of tragical speeches. But, oh, grief! Tempus edax rerum, — what is that will last always ? The sea, exhaled by drops, will,...

...their neck-verse if they should have need * * and yet if you intreat him fair in a frosty morning ho will afford you whole Hamlets — I should say handfuls — of tragical speeches.' He also speaks of 'the servile imitation of vainglorious tragedians * * the alchymists of eloquence...

...they should have need ; yet English Seneca, read by candlelight, yields many good sentences, as Blond is a Beggar, and so forth : and, if you entreat him...'Hamlets? I should say handfuls, of tragical speeches." This quotation is held to furnish the external evidence that Shakspere had been an attorney, by the...

...born, and busy themselves with the endeavours of art," and that " English Seneca, read by candle-light, will afford you whole Hamlets ; I should say handfuls of tragical speeches." In the " Hamlet " of Shakespeare, which was printed in 1 604, we have these words : — " Seneca cannot...