 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 страници
...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...he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he deseribes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1849 - 650 страници
...Shakspearo is not only just, but uncommonly elegant nnil happy. ' He WHS the man, who of all modmi, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most...comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were (till present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, yon... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 страници
...poet, author He was not of an age, but for all time! Ben Jonson (1573-1637) English dramatist, poet He was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 страници
...sums up die situation neatly in his Of Dramatic Poesy, An Essay: To begin, then, with Shakespeare: 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... | |
 | Julie Stone Peters - 1990 - 312 страници
...dramatist.64 In the "Essay of Dramatic Poesy," for instance, Dryden writes of Shakespeare as the author who "of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul."65 The usage appeared in the fourteenth century and continued through most of the eighteenth... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - 1995 - 214 страници
...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 - 1996 - 172 страници
...against 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 - 1996 - 794 страници
...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,...them, not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too." Yet while Handel describes a landscape or a bucolic... | |
 | Susan Bassnett - 1997 - 234 страници
...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 - 2009 - 396 страници
...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... 
