 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...tinfture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspere was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator,...speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His charaEters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...fomecaftof the models, of thofe before him. The poetry of Shakfpeare was infpiration indeed : he is not fo much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and it is not fo juft to fay that he fpeaks from her, as that fhe fpeaks through him. His charafters are fo much... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...tincture of the learning, or some cast 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 it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. " His Characters... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...some cast 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 ; and it is not so just to say that he •peaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...tincture of the learning, or some cast 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 'tis not so just to say, that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...tincture of the learning, or some cast 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 'tis not so just to say, that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...tincture^ of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator,...speaks through him. " His characters are so much nature Jierself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 878 pages
...tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. The Poetry of Shakespeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator,...her, as that she speaks through, him. His characters ere so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies... | |
 | John Nichols - 1817 - 874 pages
...tincture of the learning, or some cast of the mo. dels, of those before him. The Poetry of Shakespeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator,...so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she s|>caks through him. His characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : v j he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument (_of_nature-J and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as lhat she speaks through him. " His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury... | |
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Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him. 
