 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 trang
...Shakespeare is not only just, but uncommonly elegant and happy. " He was the man who, of all modern, ami perhaps ancient, poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When lie describes any thing, you more than see it, you t'cel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 trang
...pleasing. He was read, admired, studied, and imitated, while he was yet CV1 DR. JOHNSON S PREFACE. deformed with all the improprieties which ignorance...Nature were still present to him, and he drew them not lahoriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 trang
...however, learned to depend on his own myriad-minded genius, on bis own thousandtongued BOU!.] [• He ll be drew them not laboriously but luckily: is easy — InfacUi causa cuiris licet ate dittrto — But... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 326 trang
...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,...them not laboriously, but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it—you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1842 - 484 trang
...admits that " he was the man who, of all modem, and perhapa ancient poets, had the largest and mo*! comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, no: laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it ; yon feel it too Those... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 trang
...the general effect of the work is weakened. Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils.' Shakspeare was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps...laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accuse him to 2 have wanted learning give him the... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1843 - 326 trang
...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,...laboriously, but 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... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 trang
...of them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior.* To hegin then with Shakspeare. 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 he descrihes any thing you more than s,*ei,, you feel it too. Those... | |
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All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew 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 him the greater commendation : he... 
