 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior. To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 pages
...rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakspeare was the " man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient, poets,...any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who nccuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 pages
...rectified, nor his allusions understood ; jet then did Dryden pronounce, " that Shakspeare was the myself much better ; yet, for you, I would be trebled...thousand times more fair, ten thousand times More rich : whet he describes any thing, you more than see it, yoi feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce " that Shakespeare was the man, who, of all modern and, perhaps, ancient poets,...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriouslv, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those,... | |
 | John Platts - 1826 - 882 pages
...ample and judicious that it renders further commendation superfluous. " Shakspeare," says he, "-was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so I should do him... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 406 pages
...circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 408 pages
...circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...teacher, is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 pages
...matchless productions of this first of all dramatic writers. "Shakspeare was the man," he remarks, "who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned;... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...matchless productions of this first of all dramatic writers. "Shakspeare was the man," he remarks, "who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you f«; it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation' he was... | |
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All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew 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 him the greater commendation : he... 
