 The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers. The composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed...  The Youth's Progressive Spelling and Reading Book - Seite 145von Richard C. AUSTIN - 1864 - 168 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1847 - 824 Seiten
...Shakespeare wrote better and worse than other men, and Dr. Johnson in his antithetic way says : l " The work of a correct and regular writer, is a garden...shades and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 Seiten
...composition refers us only to the writer ; we pronounce the name of Cato, but we think on Addison. 375 " The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...the composition of Shakspeare is a forest, in which iaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the kir, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 Seiten
...of practical prudence, can be collected than he alone has given to his country. (His Composition.) The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...shades and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed... | |
 | 1878 - 230 Seiten
...correct and regular writer," says Dr. Johnson — no fanatical admirer of our great dramatist — " is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted,...shades and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 Seiten
...composition refers us only to fne writer : we pronounce the name of Cato, but we think on Addison. The work of a correct and regular writer is a 'garden accurately formed nnd diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakspearo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 Seiten
...have i through the intricacies of the drama. with shades and scented with flowers : the composi tion ould not be the villain thai thou think'st For the...to boot. Mat. Be not offended • [ speak not as sheher to myrtles and to rose;. ; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying tlit mind with endless... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1888 - 538 Seiten
...that he measured Shakespeare by cold and formal notions of correctness, should read his noble Preface. "The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...shades and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1888 - 524 Seiten
...and diligently planted, varied with shades and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed some338 389 times with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and roses; filling... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 Seiten
...composition refers us only to the writer ; we pronounce the name of Cato, but we think on Addison. The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...shades, and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed... | |
 | William Minto - 1894 - 438 Seiten
...he measured Shakespeare by cold and formal notions of correctness should read his noble preface. " The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...shades and scented with flowers ; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches and pines tower in the air, interspersed... | |
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