 Shakspeare be considered as a man, born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction either from the world or from books, he may be regarded as a prodigy : if represented as a poet, capable of furnishing a proper entertainment...  Yale Scientific Monthly - Page 851901Full view - About this book
 | David Hume - 1776 - 496 pages
...perhaps render the former liberty not the leaft perilous for an author. IF Shakefpeare be confidered as a MAN, born in a rude age, and educated in the lowed manner, without any inftruQion, either from the world or from books, he may be regarded as a... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1796 - 474 pages
...i :;• • „ I • • • • i--.ii OF SHAKESPEARE, Mr. Hume fays, that if he *' be confidered as a man born " in a RUDE AGE, and educated in the " loweft manner, WITHOUT ANY IN* 1U It is not my intention to controvert the propriety of every fentiment... | |
 | Literature, Modern - 1902 - 742 pages
...barbari solent," he says contemptuously of those writers. Shakespeare is only worthy of praise when " considered as a man born in a rude age and educated...instruction either from the world or from books." In the course of his long French life he had adopted wholesale the current French critical theories,... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1882 - 840 pages
...the absurd theories respecting Shakspeare's life and works. Hume the historian said : " If Shakspeare be considered as a man born in a rude age and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction from books or from the world, he may be regarded as a prodigy. If represented as a poet capable of... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1833 - 488 pages
...is Hume's History; and there we have a most unjustifiable account both of Shakspeare and his age. " Born in a rude age, and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction cither/rom the world m from books." How could a man of Hume's acutencss suppose for a moment that a... | |
 | Monthly literary register - 1839 - 720 pages
...representative. It is amusing to read Hume's opinion of the genius of Shakspere. whom he describes as " born in a rude age, and educated in the lowest manner,...instruction either from the world or from books." How it happened that knowledge, at all entrances, became quite shut out from the mind of Shakspere,... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - Drama - 1840 - 428 pages
...is Hume's History ; and there we have a most unjustifiable account both of Shakspeare and his age. " Born in a rude age, and educated in the lowest manner,...instruction either from the world, or from books.'' How could a man of Hume's acuteness suppose for a moment that a poet, whose characters display such... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 pages
...is Hume's History ; and there we have a most unjustifiable account both of Shakspeare and his age. " Born in a rude age, and educated in the lowest manner,...instruction either from the world, or from books.'' How could a man of Hume's acuteness suppose for a moment that a poet, whose characters display such... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...and others spoke with less reserve. Hume, one of the finest intellects of his day, describes him as "born in a rude age, and educated in the lowest manner, without any instruction from the world or from books," and finally pronounces that " a reasonable propriety of thought he cannot... | |
 | Theology - 1847 - 824 pages
...whose taste was formed on French models, is still more limited in his admiration. " If Shakespeare be considered as a MAN, born in a rude age and educated...of furnishing a proper entertainment to a refined and intelligent audience, we must abate somewhat of this eulogy. In his compositions, we regret that... | |
| |
