 | John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior. 'To begin then with Shakespeare. 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... | |
 | Northrop Frye - Literary Collections - 2006 - 561 pages
...William Frost (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1953), 362-3: "To begin, then, with Shakespeare. 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... | |
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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... 
