 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects; and that as he has...better, so he has perhaps written worse, than any other. Mut I think I can in some measure account for these defects, from several causes and accidents ; without... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...to facts and opinions, and must qualify. " It must be owned, that with all these great excellences, he has almost as great defects : and that as he has...some measure account for these defects, from several canses and accidents ; without which it is hard to imagine that so large and so enlightened a mind... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pages
...world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has...hard to imagine that so large and so enlightened a mi nd could ever have been susceptible of them. That all these contingencies should unite to his disadvantage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...the world, may be born, as well as the poet It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has...any other. But I think I can in some measure account fojthese defects, from several causes and accidents ; without which it is hard to imagine that so large... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 500 pages
...the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellences, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has...these contingencies should unite to his disadvantage 4 The truth of another of Dr. Johnson's assertions may, perhaps, be disputed ; that Shakspeare's peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 446 pages
...the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellences, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has...these contingencies should unite to his disadvantage 4 The truth of another of Dr. Johnson's assertions may, perhaps, be disputed ; that Shakspeare's peculiar... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 520 pages
...the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellences, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better, so he has per* The truth of another of Dr. Johnson's assertions may, perhaps, be disputed ; that Shakespear's... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 pages
...the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellences, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has certainly written better, so he has per* The truth of another of Dr. Johnson's assertions may, perhaps, be disputed ; that Shakespear's... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects ; and that as he has...them. That all these contingencies should unite to bis disadvantage seems to me almost as singularly unlucky, as that so many various (nay, contrary)... | |
 | 1921 - 472 pages
...both of Beauties and Faults of all sorts. ... It must be owned that with all these great excellencies, he has almost as great defects; and that as he has...better, so he has perhaps written worse, than any other. . . . With all his faults, and with all the irregularity of his drama. . . . Nor does the whole fail... | |
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... nature at one glance, and to be the only author that gives ground for a very new opinion, that the philosopher, and even the man of the world, may be born, as well as the poet. It must be owned, that with all these great excellencies, he has almost... 
