 | Ben Jonson - Poets, Latin - 1616 - 418 pages
...in midwinter 1601-2 (Hazlitt's Dodsley 9. 194): 'Kemp [to Burbage]. Few of the university pen play well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 434 pages
...represented (particularly Kempe) as leaden spouts — very illiterate. "Few of the university (says Kempe) pen plays well; they smell too .much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis : — why here 's our Fellow Shakspeare puts them all down. Farma The sentence delivered... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...Parnassus, wherein Kempe, in a supposed dialogue with Burbage, is made to say, " Few of the university pen plays well ; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Juppiter. Why here's pur fellow Shakspeare put them... | |
 | Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...faults ; and it may be, besides, they will be able to pen a part." Kempe.—" Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Juppiter. Why here's our fellow Shakspeave put them... | |
 | Walter Scott - English drama - 1810 - 618 pages
...faults, and it may bee beside? they wil! be able to pen a part. Kempe. Few of the university pen plaies well ; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talke too much of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why heres our fellow Shakespeare puts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...illiterature. In The Return from Parnassus, Kempe is made to say to Burbadge : " Few of the university pen plays well ; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Juppiter." Philomusus says, sneeringly : " Indeed,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...(1602) Kempe and Burbage are introduced, and the former is made to say, — " Few of the University pen plays well ; they smell too much of that writer, Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpine and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...pen a part ;" to which Kempe, who seems here an object of irony, replies, — " Few of the university pen plays well ; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Juppiter. Why here's our fellow Shakspeare put them... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1820 - 428 pages
...represented (particularly Kempe) as leaden spouts— very illiterate. " Few of the university (says Kempe) pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer JWetamorpi:osis : — why here 'a our Fellow Shakspeare puts them all down. Farmer. The sentence delivered... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 548 pages
...represented (particularly Kempe) as leaden spouts — very illiterate. " Few of the university (says Kempe) pen plays well ; they smell too much of that writer Ovid, and that writer Metaphorphosis : — why here's our Fellow Shakspeare puts them all down." FARMER. The sentence delivered... | |
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Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him... 
