| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 páginas
...was yet Dot rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakspeare 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 nccuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 páginas
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; jet then did Dryden pronounce, " that Shakspeare To wish myself much better ; yet, for you, I would...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 páginas
...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 - 1826 - 882 páginas
...present, is so ample and judicious that it renders further commendation superfluous. " Shakspeare," says he, "-was the man, who of all modern, and perhaps...them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing you more than see it, ; you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature;... | |
| 1826 - 450 páginas
...among; the Engliih. DryJeи. §81. Remarks en fame of the befi Eaglijit dramatic Poets. Shakefpeare was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largeft and moft comprehenfive foul. All the images of nature were ftilf prefent to him, and he drew... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 páginas
...matchless productions of this first of all dramatic writers. "Shakspeare was the man," he remarks, "who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 páginas
...matchless productions of this first of all dramatic writers. "Shakspeare was the man," he remarks, "who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you f«; it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 páginas
...the dissolution of " the great globe itself" can annihilate. Dryden says of him, "He was a 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 he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 páginas
...vision are to the ear and eye, the same that tickling is to the touch. — Swift. ' CVll. Shakspeare 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... | |
| 1829 - 440 páginas
...after a new era in English literature had begun, Dryden, in his Essay on Dramatic Poetry, praised " the man who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul," in a style of eulogium perfect enough to fill all succeeding panegyrists with despair. Such was the... | |
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