 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive eoul. All the images of nature were still present to him,...luckily : when he describes any thing you more than see it—you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation :... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1839 - 718 pages
...Even Dryden, who came in a worse period, and had no undue reverence for Shakspeare, admits that " he was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anv thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse his plays were not so frequently... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1839 - 702 pages
...Shakespeare is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was the man who, of all modern, ami perhaps ancient, poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When lie describes any thing, you more than see it, you t'cel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...JOHNSON S PREFACE. deformed with all the improprieties which ignorance and neglect could accumulate on him ; while the reading was yet not rectified, nor...Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not lahoriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 846 pages
...however, learned to depend on his own myriad-minded genius, on bis own thousandtongued BOU!.] [• He ll be drew them not laboriously but luckily: is easy — InfacUi causa cuiris licet ate dittrto — But... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...justly ranks high among the prose writers of English literature. " To begin with Shakspeare. He is the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...them not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it—you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1843 - 326 pages
...justly ranks high among the prose writers of English literature. " To begin with Shakspeare. He is the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...describes any thing, you more than see it — you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation; he was naturally learned;... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...the general effect of the work is weakened. Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.' Shakspeare was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps...luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accuse him to 2 have wanted learning give him the greater commendation:... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...yet £HAK. I. k deformed with all the improprieties which ignorance and neglect could accumulate on him ; while the reading was yet not rectified, nor...laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, yon more than see it, yon feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 538 pages
...of them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior.* To hegin then with Shakspeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not lahoriously, hut luckily : when he descrihes any thing you more than s,*ei,, you feel it too. Those... | |
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