| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 páginas
...pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life....not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by tbe rest of the world , by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
| Henry Caslon - 1841 - 598 páginas
...ainfilissimiut, P. Hcijiio, ¡>ontifejc maxintus, Ti'ierium GrucABCDEFGHIJKLMXOPQKSTUVWXYZ^Œ Shakspeare U above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his renders a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of... | |
| Alonzo Potter - 1843 - 352 páginas
...and in so various manner, so well." — Blake. 5 vols. 16mo, $6 25. Goldsmith. Shakspeare. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...mirror of manners and of life. His characters are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the •world will always supply, and observation will... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 páginas
...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, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to ti* readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs... | |
| Richard Hiley - 1846 - 330 páginas
...Shakspeare, the greatest of poets, and, deservedly, the pride of his country. "Shakspeare," says Johnson, "is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
| 1847 - 346 páginas
...and beautifully descriptive, finds an echo in every bosom. 8vo, S2 50, London. Shakspeare. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters a*e the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1848 - 456 páginas
...what we have said of him in the words of that greatest of critics, Dr. Johnson. "Shakspeare," he says, "is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 páginas
...length, by displaying what he holds to be the great peculiarity of his excellence : — " Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life This, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare — that his drama is the mirror of life." Such is the... | |
| George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 páginas
...in his " Preface to Shakspere," published in 1768, justly remarks : — '' Shakspere Is, above al! writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet...faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters arc not modified by the cuttoms of particular plaees, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. l SIIAKSrKARK. Shakspeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern...not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate... | |
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