 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...selection out of common conversation and common occurrences. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...famous Preface to his edition of Shakespeare (1765). This therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who...imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | Adolf Portmann, Rudolf Ritsema - Philosophy - 1975 - 684 pages
...that has chiefly familiarised us with this attitude : This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who...imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | Seamus Perry - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 330 pages
...ll:1z3), and we are really not very far from the terms of Johnson's movingly anti-Miltonic praise: 'he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2002 - 436 pages
...which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 380 pages
...would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who...imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human... | |
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This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human... 
