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...Shakspeare's ; but he has left the best character of Shakspeare that has ever been written.* * " To begin, then, with Shakspeare : he was the man who of all...comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you...

...the miserable taste of the age ; and Sir Walter, that Jonson, " by dint of learning and " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who, of all...comprehensive soul ; all the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously but luckily; when he describes any thing, you...

...poet, author He was not of an age, but for all time! Ben Jonson (1573-1637) English dramatist, poet He was the man who, of all modern, and perhaps ancient...poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are...

...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...comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you...

...dramatist.64 In the "Essay of Dramatic Poesy," for instance, Dryden writes of Shakespeare as the author who "of all Modern, and perhaps Ancient Poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul."65 The usage appeared in the fourteenth century and continued through most of the eighteenth...

...of 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...comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing,...

...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...comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you...

...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...