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 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily;... | |
 | 1829 - 440 pages
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 434 pages
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 430 pages
...sister to Aaron." SHAESPEABE. Dryden, in one of his prefaces, speaking of our great dramatist, says, "He was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps, ancient...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul . All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily;... | |
 | 1830 - 288 pages
...character which Dryden has drawn of Shakspcarc, is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was the man, who, " of all modern, and perhaps...poets, " had the largest and most comprehensive soul. " All the images of nature were stid present to " him, and he drew them not laboriously, but " luckily.... | |
 | 1832 - 406 pages
...mentioned, on his birth-day, in the year 1616, at the age of fifty-two. " Shakspeare," says Dryden, " was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily.... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 514 pages
...Latin, like a monarch, and what would have been theft in other poets, is only victory in him. Shakspeare was the man, who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient...Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul — all the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dry den pronounce, "thatShakspeare s) Fann'd with the eastern wind, turns to a crow,...When thou hold'st up thy hand : O let me kiss This pr All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily:... | |
 | 1836 - 504 pages
...8efftng in beffe n tCeatraltfd;ec »¡Miotbef (175S). 4. St. ©. 50 fg. as!) „Shakespeare," fag t er, „was the man, who of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comparative soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior.* To begin then with Shakspeare. He was the man whq of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily :... | |
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