...Students of both Universities prefixed to the Menaphon of Greene, refers to a writer, of whom he says : ' If you entreat him fair in a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say, Handfulls of tragical speeches.' In 1594, Henslowe, in his Diary, records that the Play containing...

...preface to Greene's Menaphon, 1589) this version was a storehouse of phrases to contemporary dramatists, 'English Seneca read by candlelight yields many good sentences, as Blood is a beggar and so forth.' But a more important tribute to Seneca's influence than this translation was the production of an English...

...Denmark is shown to have been commonly known by Nash's reference in his preface to Greene's Menaphon: "English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good...you whole Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches."1 It is possible, however, that the names of Susanna and Judith Shakespeare were chosen from...

...Denmark is shown to have been commonly known by Nash's reference in his preface to Greene's Menaphon: "English Seneca read by candle-light yields many good...frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets, 1 should say handfuls of tragical speeches." 1 It is possible, however, that the names of Susanna and...

...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...so forth ; and if you entreat him fair in a frosty morn1ng he will afford you whole Hamlets^ I should say handfuls of tragical speeches. But O grief!...

...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 speeches Seneca let blood line by line, and page by page, at length must die to our stage." — Prelace, i.ireen's...

...with the endeavors of art, that could scarcely latinize their neck-verse if they should have need. Yet English Seneca read by candle-light yields many...Hamlets, I should say handfuls, of tragical speeches. But O grief! Tempua edax rerum, what's that will last always? The sea exhaled by drops will in continuance...

...death is not a leveller ! SIR WFP NAPIER.— History of the War in the Peninsula. ENGLISH SCHOLARSHIP ENGLISH Seneca read by candle-light yields many good...Hamlets, I should say handfuls of tragical speeches. . at, But 0 grief ! tempus edax rerum, what's that will last always ? The sea exhaled by drops will...

...their neck-verse if they should have neede ; yet English Seneca read by candle-light yeeldes manie good sentences as blood is a beggar" and so forth : "and if you intreate him faire in a frostie morning , he will afford you whole Hamlets, I should say handfull of...

...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...beggar,' and so forth, and if you entreat him fair on a frosty morning, he will afford you whole Hamlets — I should say handfuls of tragical speeches."...