 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 488 pages
...and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...writers, the poet of nature ; the poet tbat holds up to •his readers a faithful mirror of manners end of life. His characters are not modified by the cuftoms of particular places, unpraftifed by the reil of the world ; by the peculiarities of fludies or protcffijns, which can operate... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Decoration and ornament - 1813 - 492 pages
...able painter, to display them in all their peculiar symptoms and characteristics. Johnson call* him " the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithfuA mirror of manners and of. life," This just praise lie could never have deserved, but by profoundly... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1084 pages
...and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...and the mind cato only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...truth, and carry conviction to the heart. " Shakspeare," he says, " is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of mauners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
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