 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1824 - 510 pages
...but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poels, bad the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew theui not laboriously but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it; you feel it too.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...could accumulate npon him; while the reading was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; jet f alone, I would not he ambitious in my wish, To wish...thousand times more fair, ten thousand times More rich : whet he describes any thing, you more than see it, yoi feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce " that Shakespeare was the man, who, of all modern and, perhaps, ancient...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriouslv, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those,... | |
 | John Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 pages
...is so ample and judicious that it renders further commendation superfluous. " Shakspeare," says he, "-was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...any thing you more than see it, ; you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 404 pages
...eminent a teacher, is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 pages
...is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 406 pages
...is a circumstance which I imagine no other nation besides England can boast. BURKE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...matchless productions of this first of all dramatic writers. "Shakspeare was the man," he remarks, "who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you f«; it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation' he was... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...man \vho, of all modern and, perhaps, ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. AH the images of nature were still present to him, and...any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there." But,... | |
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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 anything, you more than see... 
