 | Hugh Blair - 1812 - 400 páginas
...juft, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was " the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps antient Poets, had " the largeft and moft comprehenfive foul....Nature were ftill prefent to him, and he drew them not " Uborioufly, but luckily. When he defcribes any thing, you " more than fee it ; you feel it too. They... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 páginas
...Mr. Waller among .the English. Dryden. REMARKS ON SOME OF THE UEST ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. SHAKSPEARE 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 páginas
...yet rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, That Shaksfieare ivas the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. Jill the images of nature ivere still firesent to him, and he... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 páginas
...character which Dryden has drawn of Shakespeare, is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 páginas
...was yet not rectified nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden I rouounce, "that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All tue imases of nature were still present to him, and he drew... | |
 | John Aikin - 1814 - 662 páginas
...is so ample and judicious, that it renders further commendation superfluous. " Shakespear (says 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 páginas
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, ' that Shakapeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All thr ima?cS or nature were still present to him, and he drew... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1845 - 816 páginas
...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 poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul; all the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew... | |
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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... 
