| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 lehte
...offspring, might bid defiance to any attempt to appropriate them to others : — " But Shakspeare's w" He this year lent his friendly assistance to correct and improve a pamphlet written by Mr Gwyn, the... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 638 lehte
...offspring, might bid defiance to any attempt to appropriate them to others : " But Shakspeare's magick could not copied be, Within that circle none durst walk but he." Cor. et Ad.— Line 4 : For " a book on the authenticity of the Gospel History, read, " an enquiry... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 806 lehte
...1883, ed., The Works of John Dryden, vol. in, p. 2. THE ENCHANTED ISLAND 1670 The storm, which vauished on the neighbouring shore, Was taught by Shakespeare's...be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. I mast confess 'twas bold, nor would yon now That liberty to vulgar wits allow, Which works by magic... | |
| W. Thomas - 1901 - 688 lehte
...peut dire de Dryden ce qu'il affirme de Shakespeare dans le domaine du drame : « But Dryden's magie could not copied be Within that circle none durst walk but he l. » Conscient de sa force, l'écrivain n'use plus de subterfuges littéraires. Dans son Mac Flecknoe... | |
| 1903 - 1186 lehte
...Burn daylight. Act «. 8e. i. I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty." Act Hi. Sc. 1. But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. The, Ttmpett. Prologue. I am as free as Nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began,... | |
| 1902 - 698 lehte
...the lamest sur-rejoinder. This is that the Shakespearean note is absolutely individual and peculiar : Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. So sang Dryden. The song has been multitudinously echoed by succeeding critics. Few people who have... | |
| George William Rusden - 1903 - 432 lehte
...child (Warbling) his native wood notes wild. Dryden lauded him in a comprehensive couplet (1676)— But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be, Within that circle none durst walk but he. And in 1696, with a bust of Shakespeare before him, he wrote — With awe I ask his blessing ere I... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 lehte
...and superior a nature that Dry den, who had attempted to imitate in vain, might well exclaim that " Shakespeare's magic could not copied be, "Within that circle none durst walk but He." seldom trusts to the apprehensions of his audience ; his characters interpret for one another continually,... | |
| David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 lehte
...and superior a nature that Dryden, who had attempted to imitate in vain, might well exclaim that " Shakespeare's magic could not copied be, "Within that circle none durst walk but He." Falstaff is, indeed, so far from appearing to my eye in the light of a Miles Gloriosus, that, in the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 lehte
...singer during the absence of John Sinclair from that theatre. ' Magic cirele' Cf. ' But Shakespear's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he.' Dryden, Prologue to The Tempett, 19-20. ' This evening late,' etc. Comus, 540 et sea. 232. ' Two tuch... | |
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