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 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...the best character of Shakspeare that has ever been written.* * " To begin, then, with 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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...imaginary conversation in which the Earl of Dorset bears a part : " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he deseribes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1849 - 650 pages
...Shakspearo is not only just, but uncommonly elegant nnil happy. ' He WHS the man, who of all modmi, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most...comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were (till present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, yon... | |
 | Henry Schroder - Yorkshire (England) - 1851 - 460 pages
...death of Shakespeare, the great dramatic bard, of whom Dryden says, " he was the man, who of 1003 au modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most • comprehensive soul." He was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in Warwickshire, where he died on his birth-day, 1614, aged 52.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1852 - 324 pages
...the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive loul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily ; wl.sn he describes any thing, you more than see it — you feel it. Those who accuse him to have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...also the sentiments of the following writers who speak in accordance with this work : — " Shakspeare 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... | |
 | J. Cherpilloud - 1853 - 266 pages
...lui reproche de s'£tre appropiie ; — h besoms ; — i il ne Cut pas plutflU SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE was the man* who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the most comprehensive soul1. All the images of nature were present to himm, and he drew them not" laboriously,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...depend on his own ciyriad-minded geniufl, on his own thousanutcnguej foul. — C. * He (Shakspeare) was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had thu largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still prenant to him, and he... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 pages
...Shakspere appeared in the Essay on Dramatic Poesy so early as 1668 : — To begin, then, with Shakspere. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...the best character of Shakspeare that his ever been written.* •To begin, then, with 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... | |
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