...sums up die situation neatly in his Of Dramatic Poesy, An Essay: To begin, then, with Shakespeare: he was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn 'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature, he look'd inwards, and found her there....

...them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior, To begin, then, with Shakespeare, He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...

...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden pronounce that Shakespeare 'was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...

...the regulatory and formulaic Corneille and other French writers: To begin then with Shakespeare. He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation. He was naturally...

...What Dryden, in his Essay on Dramatic Poesy, said concerning Shakespeare applies equally to Handel: "All the images of nature were still present to him,...anything, you more than see it, you feel it too." Yet while Handel describes a landscape or a bucolic scene with incomparable felicity, his music can...

...proportion in the name of the disegno interno, the inward drawing, or idea. 36 ) Shakespeare, says Dryden, was "the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily " 37 The distinction between luck and labor, made by Dryden in favor of luck and Shakespeare, exploited...

...and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but...who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the great commendation. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature;...

...- for his versification, his diction, his classical correctness - but that he loved Shakespeare: He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally...

...Beaumont and Fletcher. The present extract is spoken by Neander. To begin, then, with Shakespeare: 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 so,...

...playwrights of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as contemporary France, Dryden wrote: '[Shakespeare] was the man who of all Modern and perhaps Ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too', concluding that while he admired Jonson's learning,...