...of one's-self, and proclaiming it with the sound of a trumpet. " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation...

...so well excelled himself, says: " He was a man of all the moderns and perhaps the ancient poets who had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the...learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inward and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so,...

...Even Dryden, who came in a worse period, and had no undue reverence for Shakspeare, admits that " he was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater recommendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he...

...when he cared less to keep on the mask.—Clarendon. SHAKESPEARE. To begin then, with Shakspeare. He was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...luckily. When he describes anything, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation....

...of blemishes to be deducted from his merits is not great,f and we should scarcely be thankful * [He (Shakspeare) was the man who of all modern, and perhaps...learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he...

...of blemishes to be deducted from his merits is not great, f and we should scarcely be thankful * [He (Shakspeare) was the man who of all modern, and perhaps...learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he...

...which Dr. Blair quotes with approhation, "as not only just, hut uncommonly elegant and happy." " He was the man who, of all modern, and, perhaps, ancient...nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not lahoriously, hut luckily. When ho descrihes any thing, you more than see it — you feel it, too. They...

...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,...learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he...

...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...learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he...

...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...