| Alexander Pope - 1886 - 598 halaman
...poetry of Shakespear -was inspiration! indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of j Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks...him. His characters are so much Nature herself, that 'tis a sort j of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. {. Those of other poets... | |
| 1886 - 678 halaman
...common commentaries upon all the actions of our lives." Pope\says of him, Shakespeare is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature, and it is not so just to say, that he speaks for her as that she speaks through him. Nature was in the order of time the first divine lesson to... | |
| 1886 - 626 halaman
...common commentaries upon all the actions of our lives." Pope says of him, Shakespeare is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature, and it is not so just to say, that he speaks for her as that she speaks through him. Nature was in the order of time the first divine lesson to... | |
| Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1887 - 698 halaman
...the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and it is not so just to say that be speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1886 - 596 halaman
...the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from hi-r as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much Nature herself, that 'tis a sort of... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1890 - 582 halaman
...the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespear was inspiration : indeed, he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and it is...he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. N " His diameters are so much nature herself, that it is a * sort of injury to call them by so distant... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 328 halaman
...much an imitator as an instrument of nature; and 'tis not so just to say that he speaks from her as she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature, herself, that 'tis a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. — Pope's Preface to " Tonson's... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 halaman
...adds, " was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and 'tis not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him." Richardson, who, like Pope, was born in the seventeenth century, makes his heroine, Miss Byron, on... | |
| George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1892 - 220 halaman
...adds, " was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of nature ; and 'tis not so just to say that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him." Richardson, who, like Pope, was 5 born in the seventeenth century, makes his heroine, Miss Byron, on... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 halaman
...the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature ; and it is...him. His characters are so much Nature herself, that 'tis a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those of other poets have... | |
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