 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1804
...desired to present to us ! Shakespeare does not describe, he does seem to imagine the personages of of his scene; he waves his magic wand, and the personages...before us. What comes nearest to the preeminence of Shakespeare is the Don Quixote of Cervantes, the Sir Roger de Coverley of Addison, the Lovelace of... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, Samuel Cooper Thacher, William Emerson - 1810
...dialogue. Like the machinery of his poem, he seems to operate by enchantment. He waves his magical wand, and the personages themselves appear, and act...sorrows of their former life. The past is present befcye us. But, however we may admire the wonders of his VOL. ix. 25 invention and the skill of his... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 494 pages
...ordinary life,—how completely are they the very man that the poet desired to present to us! Shakspeare does not describe, he does seem to imagine the personages...their former life. The past is present before us. GODWIN.' ' Life of Chaucer, Vol. 4. p. 189. It has been justly observed by Mr. Godwin, that what conies... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828
...ordinary life,—how completely are they the very man that the poet desired to present to us! Shakspeare does not describe, he does seem to imagine the personages...their former life. The past is present before us. GODWIN/ T Life of Chaucer, Vol. 4. p. 189. It has been justly observed by Mr. Godwin, that what comes... | |
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... completely are they the very man that the poet desired to present to us! Shakspeare does not describe, he does seem to imagine the personages of his scene ; he waves his magic wand, and the personages themselves appear, and act over again, at his... 