 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.  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Side 62af Samuel Johnson - 1816Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 sider
...life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare...above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the j>oet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1821 - 542 sider
...subscribing to his opinions. " Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern write™, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. JHis characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 sider
...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, unpractised... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 sider
...life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare...mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modi tied by the customs o€ particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 sider
...life sends us all in quest ; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 sider
...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, unpractised by the rest of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 996 sider
...composition pre-eminent for taste, elegance, and philosophy. " Shakspeare," says our great moralist, " thine ; add of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 sider
...which nature spake to mankind. And Johnson leaves on record this memorable testimony, that "SHAKSPEARE is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...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... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 616 sider
...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,... | |
 | Henry Halford - 1833 - 268 sider
...like that proposed by the poet ; by him, of whom it has been justly observed by Dn Johnson, that he is, ' above all writers, at least above all modern...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... | |
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