 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 pagina’s
...a model of encomiastic criticism ; exact without minuteness, and lofty without exaggeration." " 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. They who accuse him of wanting learning give him... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pagina’s
...served up to us in a diluted state by many a modern critic:—" To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation:... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pagina’s
...imitated, while he was yet deformed with all the improprieties which ignorance and neglect could accumulate upon him, while the reading was yet not rectified,...the images of nature were still present to him, and drew them not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel... | |
 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pagina’s
...Dryden, who read Shakspere's works before any corrections or emendations were made, says : ' Shakspere 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. John Milton, when he was 24 years of age, wrote the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 pagina’s
...served up to us in a diluted state by many a modeiu critic: — "To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...drew them, not laboriously, but luckily : when he descrilws any thing, you more than see it — you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted... | |
 | William Robson Arrowsmith - 1865 - 376 pagina’s
...the Shrew, Henry V., and a Midsummer Night's Dream, poets, and perhaps some ancient, as possessing "the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the...them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it." In 1675, Edward Phillips, nephew of the poet Milton,... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pagina’s
...24th), in the seventieth year of her age, and forty-fifth of her reign. Hume. SHAKSPEAKE AND BEN JONSON. Shakspeare was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps...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... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pagina’s
...of them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior. 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 3accuse him to have wanted learning,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pagina’s
...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...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... | |
 | Book - 1868 - 168 pagina’s
...the flame ; — Oh! need 1 tell that passion's name? Sir W. SHAKESPEARE AND BEN JONSON. CHAKESPEARE 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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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: when he describes anything, you more than see... 
