...but call forth thund'ring Aeschylus. Euripides, and Sophocles to us. ... Or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. In Milton's four lines we seem to find several aspects of Jonson which are daunting to the general...

...with the author, for such an expression as occurs in the following: — Or when thy Sockes were on Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come, — might be claimed to be a mere figure...

...tread And shake a scène : or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for thé comparison Of ail, that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes corne. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom ail scènes of Europe homage owe. He was...

...dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thec alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of...

...Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, king So long in his unlucky Irish wars That all in England did repute him dead, — Triumph, my Britain! thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of...

...Cordova dead, To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from the ashes come. (Ungathered Verse, 26. 25-40) Modern readers...

...Cordova dead, To life againe, to heare thy Buskin tread, And shake a Stage: Or, when thy Sockes were on, Leave thee alone, for the comparison Of all, that insolent Greece, or haughtie Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Thyestes: At a banquet Thyestes was served...

...another audacious aspect of this audacious poem favourable comparisons with, and indeed dismissals of 'all, that insolent Greece or haughty Rome / Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come' (lines 39-40). Though Shakespeare had 'small Latin, and less Greek' (line 31), the great classical...

...observes in his famous elegy, he equaled the ancients, but "when [his] Socks were on, / Leave [him] alone, for the comparison / Of all, that insolent.../ Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come" (lines 37-40). This opinion would have been particularly true of Shakespeare in 1599, before he had...

...Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage; or when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent...Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come. Triumph, my Britain! thou hast one to show, To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of...