...adumbration of the truth. Aubrey's evidence is positive, — "he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country;" and is entitled to as much credit as any other tradition he has preserved , neither involving in itself...

...adumbration of the truth. Aubrey's evidence is positive, — " he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a school-master in the country;" and is entitled to as much credit as any other tradition he has preserved, neither involving in itself...

...besides his being born ten years after the poet's death) that " he understood Latin pretty well ; for he had been, in his younger years, a schoolmaster in the country." Dr. Farmer treats Aubrey's tradition with contempt, arguing, that Shakespeare, having married before...

...neighbours of the poet, it is positively asserted, that our bard "understood Latin pretty well, for ant expedition, crossed over to France or Italy, and gave themse * On the first of these data, it has been observed by Mr. Malone, in his "Attempt to ascertain the...

...sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.' See Letters from the Bodleian Library, &c. iii. 307. In order to reconcile these conflicting testimonies,...

...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."! * " I think it was Midsummer night that he happened to lie there." f From Mr. Beeston. . END OF BOOK...

...sayes of him, that he had but little Latine and lesse Greek, he understood Latine pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.' See Letters from the Bodleian Library, &c. iii. 307. In order to reconcile these conflicting testimonies,...

...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." His precocious gravity as a schoolmaster must have been as wonderful as his poetical power; for Aubrey...

...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." His precocious gravity as a schoolmaster must have been as wonderful as his poetical power; for Aubrey...

...his own locality, the enmity of a neighbouring justice would be, especially if, as Aubrey tells us, " he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country." " How would it have cheered the spirit of the youthful bard," says Washingtou Irving, " when, wandering...