 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 pages
...Macbeth: "In order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries." The gesture could equally be applied the other way, in relation to Shakespeare's reception... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...abilities and merit of a writer," he writes in his Observations on Macbeth (1745), "it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries"; almost four decades later, he writes in the Life ofDryden (1779), "To judge rightly... | |
 | 1842 - 780 pages
..."to make a true estiSHAKSPEARE. mate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is til ways necessary to examine the genius of his age and the opinions of his cotemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment and... | |
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IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. 
