 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...  A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose - Page 941872 - 534 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pages
...them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior, To begin, then, with Shakespeare, 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
 | Hazard Adams - 1992 - 1304 pages
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 | Eithne Henson - 1992 - 264 pages
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 | David Hopkins - 1994 - 275 pages
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 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden pronounce that Shakespeare '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... | |
 | D.H. Craig - 2002 - 523 pages
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 | Alan Sinfield - 1996 - 172 pages
...the regulatory and formulaic Corneille and other French writers: To begin then with Shakespeare. He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation. He was naturally... | |
 | Paul Henry Lang - 1996 - 794 pages
...What Dryden, in his Essay on Dramatic Poesy, said concerning Shakespeare applies equally to Handel: "All the images of nature were still present to him,...anything, you more than see it, you feel it too." Yet while Handel describes a landscape or a bucolic scene with incomparable felicity, his music can... | |
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