 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 Seiten
...stops. WW STORY. I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.i 1564-1616. CHARACTERIZATION BY DR. JOHNSON.i i. SHAKESPEARE is, above all writers — at least, above all modern...mirror of manners and of life. His characters are i The correct spelling of the poet's name has long been a matter of dispute among scholars. "The name... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 Seiten
...on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at leasl above .ail mo3ern writers, "tne t mean I To speak so true at first ? my office is To noise abroad, minor of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places,... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1884 - 298 Seiten
...and with the other ah, cousin I with the other he seized a ham ! 5. Shakespeare is above all other writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature the poet that holds up to his reailers a faithful mirror of manners and life. G. Of genius that which constitutes a poet ; that quality... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 Seiten
...I SS. l^i Si 1 I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.1 1564-1616. CHARACTERIZATION BY DR. JOHNSON.1 i. SHAKESPEARE is, above all writers — at least, above all modern...mirror of manners and of life. His characters are I. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.1 1564-1616. CHARACTERIZATION BY DR. JOHNSON.1 i. SHAKESPEARE is, above all... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 Seiten
...Shakspeare," as Dr. Johnson says, "is, above all modern writers, the poet that holds up to his hearers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters...particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world, nor by the accident of transient fashions and temporary opinions, but are the genuine progeny of common... | |
 | William Swinton - 1894 - 686 Seiten
...CHARACTERIZATION BY DR. JOHNSON.' i. SHAKESPEARE is, above all writers—at least, above all modern writers—the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers...mirror of manners and of life. His characters are 1 The correct spelling of the poet's name has long been a matter of dispute among scholars. "The name... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1895 - 578 Seiten
...point of view he praises Shakspeare as the poet of nature above all others, and speaks of him as ' the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of the manners and customs of life ' which the ancients beautified by art ; and further says that ' from... | |
 | John Drakakis, Terence Hawkes - 1985 - 324 Seiten
...faithful and exact depiction. Its exercise, he says, ensures that Shakespeare stands above all writers as 'the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life' (Johnson 1969: 59). To this day, that remains, in general terms, the grounding claim popularly made... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - 1989 - 532 Seiten
...sense of the key term nature is shifted. For Samuel Johnson it was Shakespeare's greatness that he was 'above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature', but this meant that Shakespeare better than any other 'holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 Seiten
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature <Gt/136>; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters... | |
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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. 
