 | England - 1875 - 782 pages
...man. It is only first-rate men that lead their age. But listen to what he says of 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 him... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 706 pages
...character of Shakespeare that has ever been written : — ' To begin, then, with Shakespeare : 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 too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 332 pages
...are present along with them, and share in their places the equal care of their Creator. — Jeffrey. Shakspeare was the man who, of all modern and perhaps...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... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...example of his high merit as a prose writer need be given, than his critical eulogy of Shakspere — " He was the man, who, of all " modern and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 pages
...example of his high merit as a prose writer need be given, than his critical eulogy of Shakspere — " He was the man, who, of all " modern and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...concentrated feeling of Chaucer's romantic fiction. Dryden, how* " To begin then with 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... | |
 | 1876 - 844 pages
...man. It is only first-rate men that lead their age. But listen to what he says of 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 him... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 570 pages
...that go beyond him in literature some degrees.' Drydeu * in a similar manner speaks of Shakspeare as a 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 too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...of their Creator. — Jeffrey. Shakspeare was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient posts, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 752 pages
...yet BIIAK. I. A deformed with all the improprieties which ignorance or neglect could accumulate on him ; while the reading was yet not rectified, nor...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. AH the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when... | |
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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... 
