 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, ' that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...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 - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...learned to depend on his own myriad-minded genius, on bis own thousandtongued BOU!.] [• He {Shakspeare) was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...the images of nature were still present to him, and be drew them not laboriously but luckily: is easy — InfacUi causa cuiris licet ate dittrto — But... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...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,...luckily ; when he describes anything, you more than see it—you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ;... | |
 | Jay Saunders Redding - History - 1992 - 252 pages
...historian, and critic was filled with both. One might say of him, as Dryden said of Shakespeare, that "when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too." A Shakespearean scholar himself, Redding was, however, best known as one of the first great scholars... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...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... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - Drama - 1995 - 214 pages
...English Poetry" (II, 4), while Dryden, in the encomium in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy, commends him as "the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul" — "soul" being the seat of inspiration and thus of poetic greatness. Such eulogizing presents Shakespeare... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 172 pages
...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... | |
 | Paul Henry Lang - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 794 pages
...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... | |
 | Susan Bassnett - Art - 1997 - 234 pages
...acknowledgement of a Shakespearean archetype. We are in some sense back with Dryden's claim that Shakespeare: 'was the man who of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient...comprehensive soul. All the Images of Nature were present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily'." I will now turn to another species... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 396 pages
...the mind and its powers inspires almost all his praise. Like Dryden, whose tribute to Shakespeare as "the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul" is saved for the end of the "Preface," he especially values how much that mind could take in.64 Others... | |
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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... 
