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" His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. "
Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century: Consisting ... - Page 73
by John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817
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Studies of Shakspere

Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...is not so> just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him. " His characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of u ii the same image : each...
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Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters : with an Historical ..., Volume 1

Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 pages
...restrained, not to say grudging, a critic as Pope was constrained to pronounce Shakespeare's characters " so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...call them by so distant a name as copies of her." " Of Nature's inner shrine thou art the Priest, Where most she works when we perceive her least." I...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pages
...her, as that she speaks through him. Hi» characters are so much Nature1 herself, that it is a son of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those oi other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and...
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 2

English authors - 1876 - 504 pages
...speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that 'tis a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name...they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image : each picture like a mockrainbow is but the reflection of a reflection....
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Shakspeare Diversions: Second Series, from Dogberry to Hamlet

Francis Jacox - 1877 - 512 pages
...under the circumstances." Pope alleged the characters of Shakspeare to be so much Nature herself, that to call them by so distant a name as copies of her " is a sort of injury." // Ics fait a nos yeux vivre, agir, et parler. It is what Hartley Coleridge...
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Lectures on the Literature of the Age of Elizabeth: And Characters of ...

William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 pages
...is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. " His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the same image : each picture,...
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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented ...

Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 428 pages
...creator of souls better than Pope in his preface to Shakespeare's works : — " His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...of other poets have a constant resemblance, which shows that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the samo image; each picture,...
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Prize Essays: Chiefly Shaksperean Studies

John J. Waller - 1882 - 196 pages
...is not so just to say that he speaks from her,, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...to call them by so distant a name as copies of her fAnd one of the most original branches of Shakspere's art is the comic element, in which he has indulged...
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The Works of Shakespeare ...

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 pages
...is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks tlirough him. His characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...call them by so distant a name as copies of her." On this point, we find, in an essay by Mr. Maurice Morgan on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff,...
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The Works of Shakespeare: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First ...

William Shakespeare - 1883 - 596 pages
...it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury...call them by so distant a name as copies of her." On this point, we find, in an essay by Mr. Maurice Morgan on the Dramatic Character of Sir John Falstaff,...
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