...character of Shakespeare that has ever been written : — ' To begin, then, with Shakespeare : he is the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets,...who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greatercommendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature...

...yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce " that Shakespeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...them not laboriously, but luckily : When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...

..."learned" poet of the reign of Charles II, sums up the situation neatly in his Of Dramatic Poesy, An Essay: To begin, then, with Shakespeare: he was the man who...give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature, he look'd inwards, and found her there....

...dressing of his lines. Milton celebrates his "native woodnotes wild." "He was the man," says Dryden, " who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had...but luckily ; when he describes anything, you more V than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater...

..."learned" poet of the reign of Charles II, sums up die situation neatly in his Of Dramatic Poesy, An Essay: To begin, then, with Shakespeare: he was the man who...give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn 'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature, he look'd inwards, and found her there....

...many faults. I will take the pattern of a perfect play from Ben |onson, who was a careful and learned observer of the dramatic laws, and from all his comedies...them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...

...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...them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...

...advanced as being 'natural' against the regulatory and formulaic Corneille and other French writers: To begin then with Shakespeare. He was the man who,...him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation. He was naturally...

...What Dryden, in his Essay on Dramatic Poesy, said concerning Shakespeare applies equally to Handel: "All the images of nature were still present to him,...anything, you more than see it, you feel it too." Yet while Handel describes a landscape or a bucolic scene with incomparable felicity, his music can...

...proportion in the name of the disegno interno, the inward drawing, or idea. 36 ) Shakespeare, says Dryden, was "the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily " 37 The distinction between luck and labor, made by Dryden in favor of luck and Shakespeare, exploited...