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" His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name as copies of her. "
The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ... - Page 242
by John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800
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The Works of Shakespear: In Six Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1745 - 582 pages
...refemblance, which mews that they receiv'd them from one another, and were but multiplyers of the fame image : each picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every lingle character in Shake/fear is as much an Individual, as thofe in Life it felf ; it is as impofllble...
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The tempest. A midsummer-night's dream. The two gentleman of Verona. The ...

William Shakespeare - 1747 - 550 pages
...refemblance, which fhews that they receiv'd them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : each picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every fmgle character in Shakefpear is as much an Individual, as thofe in Life it felf ; it is as impoflible...
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The Works of Shakespear: In Eight Volumes, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1747 - 556 pages
...refemblance, which Jhews that they receiv'd them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : each picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every fingle character in Sbakefpear is as much an Individual, as thofe in Life it felf ; it is as impoffible...
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The Works of Alexander Pope Esq, Volume 6

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 368 pages
...fo- diftant a name as- espies of her. Thofe of other Poets have a conftant refemblance, which fhews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : each picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every fingle...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1751 - 382 pages
...by fo diftant a name as copies of her. Thofe of other Poets have a conftant refemblance, which ftews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : «ach picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every fmgle...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Miscellaneous pieces in verse and prose

Alexander Pope - 1752 - 438 pages
...by fo diftant a name as copies of her. Thofe of other Poets have a conftant refemblance, which mews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : each picture like a mock-rainbow is but the reflection of a reflection. But every fingle...
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The Works of Alexander Pope: Letters

Alexander Pope - 1757 - 344 pages
...by fo diftant a name as copies of her. Thofe of other Poets have a conftant refemblance, which fhews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : each pifture like a mock rainbow is but the refleftion of a refleftion. But every fmgle...
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A new and general biographical dictionary, Volume 10

New and general biographical dictionary - 1762 - 544 pages
...diftant a name, as copies " of her. Thofe of other Poets have a conftant refemblance, " which fliews that they received them from one another, " and were but multipliers of the fame image : each picture *' like a mock-rainbow, is but the reflexion of a reflexion. " But every...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...by fa diftant a name as copies of her. Thofe of other poets have a conftant reiemblance, which mews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image: each picture, like a mock-rainbow, is but the reflexion of a reflexion. But every fingle...
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: In Four Volumes Complete. With His Last ...

Alexander Pope - 1778 - 448 pages
...by fo diftant a name as copies of her. Thofe of other Poets have a conftant refemblance, which fhews that they received them from one another, and were but multipliers of the fame image : each pifture, like a mock-rainbow, is but the refleftioa of a reflection. But every fingle...
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