 | Henry Caslon - Printing - 1841 - 598 pages
...ainfilissimiut, P. Hcijiio, ¡>ontifejc maxintus, Ti'ierium GrucABCDEFGHIJKLMXOPQKSTUVWXYZ^Œ Shakspeare U above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his renders a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Best books - 1843 - 352 pages
...and in so various manner, so well." — Blake. 5 vols. 16mo, $6 25. Goldsmith. Shakspeare. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...mirror of manners and of life. His characters are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the •world will always supply, and observation will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...sudden wonder are soon 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 ti* readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 346 pages
...and beautifully descriptive, finds an echo in every bosom. 8vo, S2 50, London. Shakspeare. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters a*e the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will... | |
 | John Burnet - Art - 1848 - 244 pages
...excellence, by which Shakspere has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen, says, " Shakspere 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 life. His characters... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...length, by displaying what he holds to be the great peculiarity of his excellence : — " Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life This, therefore, is the praise of Shakspeare — that his drama is the mirror of life." Such is the... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...in his " Preface to Shakspere," published in 1768, justly remarks : — '' Shakspere Is, above al! writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet...faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters arc not modified by the cuttoms of particular plaees, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspe-ire is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to in* reader* a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...perpetual delight. uf«fff. SHAKSPEARE. Shakspeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modem writers, — the poet of nature ; the poet that holds...faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters ore not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...above all writers,— at least above all U modern writers, — the poet of nature ; the poet that hold* up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. Ilis characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpraeticed by the rest of 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. 
