 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the • Esi vetus at'jue probus, centum qui perficit annos. Hon. Ep. II. 1. v. 39. which have nothing oharacteristical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writer», the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His character*""! are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds j/ up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. ^ His characters are not modified by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1826 - 996 pages
...composition pre-eminent for taste, elegance, and philosophy. " Shakspeare," says our great moralist, " thine ; add of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...immortal bard, no one has given so faithful a mirror of manners and of life. The characters in his plays are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; they are not influenced by the peculiarities of studies, or professions, which can operate but upon... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...which nature spake to mankind. And Johnson leaves on record this memorable testimony, that "SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life !" But let us naw turn our attention to WAR in all its tremendous ramifications ; it is a fertile subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but on small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 616 pages
...done, as well as said, and that inactive declamation is very coldly heard. Shakspeare is above all writers the poet of nature, the poet that holds up to his readers the faithful mirror of manners, and life — his characters are the genuine progeny of common humanity,... | |
 | Henry Halford - Medicine - 1833 - 268 pages
...like that proposed by the poet ; by him, of whom it has been justly observed by Dn Johnson, that he is, ' above all writers, at least above all modern...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.' Human nature, in fact, has been and is always the same ; and the descriptions of it, which we meet... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...which nature spake to mankind. And Johnson leaves on record this memorable testimony, that "SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life !" But let us now turn our attention to WAR in all its tremendous ramifications ; it is a fertile subject... | |
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Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. 
