 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
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 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...learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inwards, and found her there. 'I cannot say he is everywhere alike. Were he... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2006 - 561 pages
...William Frost (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1953), 362-3: "To begin, then, with Shakespeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so,... | |
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