 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 428 pages
...descendants, it is well known, became extinct in little more than half a century. 49. The name of Shakspeare is the greatest in our literature — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - Historical drama, English - 1840 - 354 pages
...I may venture to say so of a modern — I have the greatest reliance : — " The name of Shakspeare is the greatest in our literature — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength, at... | |
 | 1840 - 752 pages
...this great genius. We have no sympathy with these refined ' aesthetics.' • The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | 1840 - 906 pages
...this great genius. We have no sympathy with these refined ' aesthetics.' • The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | 1840 - 824 pages
...energy modified ah infra in each component part.' — (COLERIDGE'S Literary Remains, vol. ii.y~~ • The name of Shakspeare,' says Mr Hallam, < is the greatest in our literatnru — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers... | |
 | Absalom Peters, Selah Burr Treat, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1841 - 622 pages
...no character of him drawn with any fulness by a contemporary can be produced. The name of Shakspeare is the greatest in our literature ; it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
...determined person, a substantial reality of past time, the man Shakespeare. The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature, — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...above quoted', as brief in its form as it is comprehensive in its matter: — "The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature, — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...above quoted', as brief in its form as it is comprehensive in its matter: — "The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature, — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
 | 1840 - 720 pages
...character of him drawn with any fulness by a contemporary can be produced. " The name of Shakspere is the greatest in our literature — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at... | |
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The name of Shakespeare is the greatest in our literature, — it is the greatest in all literature. No man ever came near to him in the creative powers of the mind ; no man had ever such strength at once, and such variety of imagination. 
