Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Essay on the Learning of Shakspeare: Addressed to Joseph Cradock, Esq.
Shakspeare wanted not the stilts of languages to raise him above all other men. The quotation from Lilly, in the Taming of the Shrew, if in deed it be his, strongly proves the extent of his. Reading: had be known Terence, he would not have quoted erroneously from his Grammar. Every. One hath met with men in common life, who, according to the language of the Water poet, got only from possum to posset, and yet will throw out a line. Occasionally from their Ao cidence or their Cato de Moribus with tolerable propriety. If, however, the old editions be trusted in this passage, our author's memory somewhat failed him in point of concord.
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