 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...Johnson leaves on record this memorable testimony, that "SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life !" But let us naw turn our attention to WAR in all its tremendous ramifications ; it is a fertile subject... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 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...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 616 pages
...done, as well as said, and that inactive declamation is very coldly heard. Shakspeare is above all writers the poet of nature, the poet that holds up to his readers the faithful mirror of manners, and life — his characters are the genuine progeny of common humanity,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least 1 customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Henry Halford - Medicine - 1833 - 264 pages
...him, of whom it has been justly observed by Dr. Johnson, that he is, ' above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.' Human nature, in fact, has been and is always the same ; and the descriptions of it, which we meet... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...Johnson leaves on record this memorable testimony, that "SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature, the...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life !" But let us now turn our attention to WAR in all its tremendous ramifications ; it is a fertile subject... | |
 | George Smeeton - Biography - 1834 - 300 pages
...Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the ppet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...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...and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world : by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least ut I, nor none is like to have : and, truly, when...away from thy father perforce, I will render thee customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; Hie JjIRC J@{ . anil of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the... | |
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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. 
