 | 1816 - 564 pages
...Never, perhaps, was there so comprehensive a talent for the delineation of character as Shakespear's. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and...age, down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...Never, perhaps, was there so comprehensive a talent for the delineation of character as Shakespear's. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and...age, down to the dawnings of infancy; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot speak and act with equal... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1817 - 504 pages
...there so comprehensive a talent for characterization as Shakspeare. It not only grasps the diversiiies of rank, sex, and age, dow'n to the dawnings of infancy; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...Never, perhaps, was there so comprehensive a talent for the delineation of character as Shakspeare's. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and age, down to the dawnings of infancy j not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot speak and... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 522 pages
...of nature. Never, perhaps, was there so comprehensive a talent for characterization as Shakspeare's. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and...age, down to the dawnings of infancy; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 pages
...of nature. Never, perhaps, was there so comprehensive a talent for characterization as Shakspeare's. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and...age, down to the dawnings of infancy; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1832 - 622 pages
...structure of his own pieces that he had no thought to spare. Shak*peare's knowledge of mankind has beI'ome proverbial : in this his superiority is so great,...and comprehension, that they cannot be ranged under classes, and are inexhaustible, even in conception ; but he opens the gates of the magic world of spirits,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1832 - 620 pages
...even for what is singular, and deviates from the ordinary conree of nature. Never, perhaps, was ко comprehensive a talent for characterization possessed...and comprehension, that they cannot be ranged under classes, and are inexhaustible, even in conception ; but he opens the gates of the magic world of spirits,... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1833 - 466 pages
...nature. Neverper- t haps was there so comprehensive a talent for characterization as / Shakspeare. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and age, down to the dawning of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...Never, perhaps, was there so comprehensive a talent for the delineation of character as Shakspeare's. It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and...age, down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal... | |
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It not only grasps the diversities of rank, sex, and age, down to the dawnings of infancy ; not only do the king and the beggar, the hero and the pickpocket, the sage and the idiot, speak and act with equal truth ; not only does he transport himself to... 
