...— "If ever an author deserved the name of an original it was Shakespeare. The poetry of Shakespeare was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator as an instrument of Nature; and Jtis not so just to say, that he speaks from her as that she speaks through him. His characters are...

...tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before bias. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator,...she speaks through him. His characters are so much Nature1 herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. Those...

...tincture of the learning, or some cast of 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; an 1 it is not &o just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters...

...some tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models of those before him. The poetry of Shakspere was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator...speaks from her, as that she speaks through him.' Dryden, who read Shakspere's works before any corrections or emendations were made, says : ' Shakspere...

...penetrative judgments that has been uttered upon him when he said, •' The poetry of Shakespeare is inspiration indeed. He is not so much an imitator,...Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks for her as that she speaks through him." Hut he, like all his contemporaries and immediate successors,...

...tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before hra. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; an \ it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. Ki» characters...

...ohne leise Warnung vor einem so singulären, wunderbarlichen Vorbild, hinzu: The poelry of Shakespeare was inspiration indeed; he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature. Dies bringt uns zum springenden Funkt. Shakespeare galt jener Zeit als inimitable. Man müsse ihn anstaunen,...

...ohne leise Warnung vor einem so singularen, wunderbarlichen Vorbild, hinzu: The poetry of Shakespeare was inspiration indeed; he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature. Dies bringt uns zum spriugenden Punkt. Shakespeare gait jener Zeit als inimitable. Man miisse ihn anstaunen,...

...tincture of the learning, or some cast of the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator...he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. " Uis characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant...

...similar but stronger expression. " The poetry of Shakspere," he says in his preface to the Works, " was inspiration indeed ; he is not so much an imitator...speaks from her, as that she speaks through him." Thomson, also, in his " Seasons," incidentally mentions the great artist as " Wild Shakspeare." In...