 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, " that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1811 - 400 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...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not labo" riously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more " than see it ; you feel it too.... | |
 | 1811 - 418 pages
...man who, of all modern, " and perhaps of all ancient poets, had the largest and most compre" hensive soul. All the images of nature were still present...them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes " any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too." Yet this high opinion was entirely overwhelmed... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...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 ancient...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 - 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...them not 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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...tragedies. Our author himself, I conceive, it shadowed." ยป 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 - 1814 - 662 pages
...present, is so ample and judicious, that it renders further commendation superfluous. " Shakespear (says he) was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...was yet not rectified nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden I rouounce, "that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...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... | |
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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... 
