 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspere. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tinfture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspere... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...throughout the universe. " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...fountains of nature ; it proceeded through Egyptian streams and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...scenes of pasturage."* ' " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature; and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...agreeable scenes of pasturage."* " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...agreeable scenes of pasturage."* " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature; arid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was iiujih aiioit indeeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument of nature ;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespear. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...observations are made by Mr. Pope : ' If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
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Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature, it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. 
