 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...eminent a teacher, is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...matchless productions of this first of all dramatic writers. "Shakspeare was the man," he remarks, "who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you f«; it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation' he was... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...paragraph : â 'To begin then with Shakspeare. He was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps all ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...them, not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything you more than see it, you flel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted teaming, give... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...character which Dryden has drawn of Shakspcarc, is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was the man, who, " of all modern, and perhaps ancient...comprehensive soul. " All the images of nature were stid present to " him, and he drew them not laboriously, but " luckily. When he describes any thing,... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...mentioned, on his birth-day, in the year 1616, at the age of fifty-two. " Shakspeare," says Dryden, " was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them, not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes anything, you more than see it â you feel it too. Those who uccuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...while be was yet deformed with all the improprieties which ignorance and neglect could accumulate on him ; while the reading was yet not rectified, nor...man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, bad the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...it would lose in any other situation. MACKENZIE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, aud perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than sce it, you fcel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive goul. All the images of nature were still present to him,...describes any thing you more than see it â you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally... | |
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He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see... 
