 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...and only Mr. Waller among .the English. Dryden. REMARKS ON SOME OF THE UEST ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. SHAKSPEARE was the man who, of all modern and perhaps...he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describe any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too Those who accuse him to have wanted learning,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...yet rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, That Shaksfieare ivas the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. Jill the images of nature ivere still firesent to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily':... | |
 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...character which Dryden has drawn of Shakespeare, is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you may then see it ; you feel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give him the greatest... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...Our author himself, I conceive, it shadowed." » SJittkspeart. To begin, then, with Shakspeaie. He was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...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 :... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...is so ample and judicious, that it renders further commendation superfluous. " Shakespear (says he) was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...while the reading was yet not rectified nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden I rouounce, "that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All tue imases of nature were still present to him, and he drew them noI laboriously, bnt luckily : when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, ' that Shakapeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All thr ima?cS or nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 580 pages
...character which Dryden has drawn of ^hakcspeare is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. ' He was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it ; you feel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give him the greatest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakespeare was the " man, who, of all modern and perhaps " ancient poets, had the largest and most compre" hensive soul. All the images of nature were still " present to him, and he drew them not laboriously,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakespeare was the " man, who, of all modern and perhaps " ancient poets, had the largest and most compre" hensive soul. All the images of nature were still " present to him, and he drew them not laboriously,... | |
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