 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. Shakspere is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspere it is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the acci dents of transient fashions or temporary opinions « they...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...delight. Ly, tffv . SHAKSPEARE. sions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the acci dents of transient fashions or temporary opinions . they...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...peculiarities of studies or profes sions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the acci dents of transient fashions or temporary opinions . they...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Elocution - 1866 - 618 pages
...manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, un practiced by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shaks'peare it... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...devolved from one generation to another, have received new honours at every transmission. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of Ufa His characters are not modified by the customs of...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1862 - 610 pages
...manners and of life. His characters arc r.ot modified by the customs of particular places, unpracticed by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are net modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...the powers of the great doctor as a critical essayist. Here is an extract from it : — " Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual, in those of Shakespeare it is... | |
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Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised... 
