 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespear. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...observations are made by Mr. Pope : ' If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...observations are made by Mr. Pope : ' If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...observed by Mr. Pope, that " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespear. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument of nature; and it... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Drama - 1818 - 552 pages
...observed by Mr. Pope, that " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespear. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration : indeed, he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument of nature ; and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1818 - 452 pages
...immortal bard." " If ever any author," says Pope, " deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...channels, and came to him not without some tincture of learning, or some cast of the models of them before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...drew not .his., art so immejUalelyJjrQm fhe~foumiaLink. of nature ; it proceeded through ^Egyptain strainers and channels, and came to him not without...some cast of the models, of those before him. The Doetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : v j he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument (_of_nature-J... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...observed by Mr. Pope, that " If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature; it proceeded through jEgy plain strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...omit any occasion of doing it. If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakspeare. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator as an instrument, of nature ; and... | |
 | Theater - 1821 - 436 pages
...about the year 1G11 or 12. 39. " If any author deserved the name of an original, it was SHAKSPEAI.E. Homer himself drew not his art so immediately from...learning, or some cast of the models of those before him." POPE'S Pref. 40. — OTHELLO. The story on which this tragedy is founded, is taken from CYNTHIO'S Novels,... | |
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Homer .himself drew not his art so immediately from the fountains of nature ; it proceeded through ^Egyptian strainers and channels, and came to him not without some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. 
