...nnd hnppy. " He was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient Poets, had the largest and mont comprehensive soul. All the images of Nature were...laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it ; you feel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give him the greatest...

...Macbeth," and " Hamlet," are the most admired. CHARACTERISTIC SPIRIT AND STYLE. — " He [Shakspere] was the man, who of all modern and perhaps ancient...most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature 1 Steevens. 2 " How much," says Mr. Hallam, (Edinburgh Review, 1808,) " has been written upon Shakespeare...

...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...

...them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior, To begin, then, with Shakespeare, He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater...

...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden pronounce that Shakespeare 'was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...