 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 mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised...  Annual Registeredited by - 1765Snippet view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above alP 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,... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all mod?rn . irriter*, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of mariners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular p!aces,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...and (he mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least ree from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures muc mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - Acting - 1824 - 430 pages
...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, unpractised by the rest of the world, by the particularities of studies... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 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 - 1825 - 750 pages
...repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writer», the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His character*""! are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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 j/ up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. ^ His characters are not modified by... | |
 | Literary gems - 1826 - 718 pages
...oversight. BUTLER. THE GENIUS AND LEARNING OF SHAKSPEARE., 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,... | |
 | Shakespeare club Sheffield - 1829 - 190 pages
...plays of Shakespeare, makes the following observations. " 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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