 Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern j writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his / readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His ^ characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised...  The Harvard Classics - Página 2201909Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Alonzo Potter - 1843 - 352 páginas
...vols. 16mo, $6 25. Goldsmith. Shakspeare. Shakspeare 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. His characters are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 páginas
...pride of his country. "Shakspeare," says Johnson, "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. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | 1847 - 346 páginas
...every bosom. 8vo, S2 50, London. Shakspeare. Shakspeare 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. His characters a*e the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the... | |
 | John Burnet - 1848 - 244 páginas
...writers, the poet of nature—the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of die world; by the peculiarities of studies and professions which can operate but upon small numbers,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 páginas
...greatest of critics, Dr. Johnson. "Shakspeare," he says, "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. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 páginas
...great peculiarity of his excellence : — " Shakspeare 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 This, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare — that his drama is the... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 páginas
...published in 1768, justly remarks : — '' Shakspere Is, above al! 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. His characters arc not modified by the cuttoms of particular plaees,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 páginas
...above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to in* reader* a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified...unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities o* studios or professions, which can operate but on small mini, bers ; or by the accidents of transient... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 páginas
...which it clearly is, but as the first name in all literature ancient or modern. He is, above all other writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. " His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...perpetual delight. uf«fff. SHAKSPEARE. Shakspeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modem writers, — the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters ore not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
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