 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - 582 pages
...character which Dryden has drawn of ^hakcspeare 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 more than see it ; you feel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 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 poets, had the largest and most compre" hensive soul. All the images of nature were still " present to him, and he drew them not laboriously,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 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 poets, had the largest and most compre" hensive soul. All the images of nature were still " present to him, and he drew them not laboriously,... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...of one's-self, and proclaiming it with the sound of a trumpet. 1 " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...passion in both. The Tancred and Sigismunda is the only general ex* " To begin then with Shakspeare : 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 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 laborious'ly, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you ' more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse ' him to have wanted learning,... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 410 pages
...paragraph : — ' To begin then with Shakspeare. He was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps all ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 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...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,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 442 pages
...Fletcher, his rivals in poesy ; and one of them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior.* To begin then with Shakespeare. He was the man who...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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...way in which they are severally appreciated at the present moment. " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. 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... | |
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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 any thing, you more than see... 
