 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " 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 stid present to " him, and he drew them not laboriously, but " luckily. When he describes any thing,... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...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...them, not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes anything, you more than see it — you feel it too. Those who uccuse him to have wanted learning, give... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 pages
...Dryden pronounce, ' that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, bad the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images...and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when be describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...understood ; yet then did Dry den pronounce, "thatShakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps crow, When thou hold'st up thy hand : O let me kiss...bliss! Hel. O spite! O hell! I see you all are bent hav wanted learning, give him the greater commend ation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed DC the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. "'He wa« Inc man, who of nil modern,and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were ctill present to him, ami he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When lie describe* any thing;,... | |
 | J. Cherpilloud - French language - 1833 - 272 pages
...but, luckily; you more than see " what he describes, you feel it too*. Those who accuse him of wanting learning?, give him the greater commendation^; he was naturally learned; he needed not books to read r nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is* every where alike1;... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 504 pages
...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...him to have wanted learning, give him the greater recommandation: he «as naturelly learned; he needed not tlio spectacles of books to read nature; he... | |
 | American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...would lose in any other situation. MACKENZIE. SHAKSPEARE. HE was the man who of all modern, aud perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than sce it, you fcel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive goul. All the images of nature were still present to him,...describes any thing you more than see it — you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...the man, who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive eoul. All the images of nature were still present to him,...luckily : when he describes any thing you more than see it—you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation :... | |
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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... 
