 | 1830 - 430 sider
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 288 sider
...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 ancient poets, " had the largest and most comprehensive soul. " All the images of nature were stid present to " him, and he... | |
 | 1832 - 406 sider
...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... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 514 sider
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 sider
...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's largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew... | |
 | 1836 - 504 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 sider
...justly ranks high among the prose writers of English literature. " To begin with Shakspeare. He is 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, and he drew... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 sider
...justly ranks high among the prose writers of English literature. " To begin with Shakspeare. He is 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, and he drew... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 sider
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, " that Shakspeare He 's coming, I perceive 't. Pne. Pray heaven, she win him ! 7it& largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 718 sider
...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 poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew... | |
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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... 
