| John Dryden - 1878 - 368 Seiten
...subjects law, And is that Nature which they paint and draw.' And in the same prologue he says— * But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.' Again— ' But Shakespeare's power is sacred as a king's.' Dryden and Davenant's ' Tempest' was published... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 Seiten
...realm's defence, Ne'er would have peace with wit, nor truce with sense. DRYDEN. 4* 49 But Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. URYDEN : Prologue to the Tempest. The vain endurances of life, And they who most perform'd, and promised... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1878 - 444 Seiten
...Truth to imitate.11— Spenser. u Sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy^ child.11 — MUton. " But Shakespeare^ magic could not copied be, Within that circle none durst walk but he.11— Dryden. "I hold a perfect comedy to be the perfection of human composition; and I firmly believe... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 Seiten
...still of the main chance. Persius, Sat. vi. Not means, but blunders round about a meaning. Mac Fkcknoe. But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he. The Tempest, Prologue. Who think too little, and who talk too much. Absalom and Achitophel, pt. i.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 Seiten
...That innocence and beauty which did smile In Fletcher, grew on this Enchanted Isle. But Shukspcare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he, Dryden was in the full tide of liis theatrical popularity when Davenarit died, in 1'66"8. The great... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 460 Seiten
...of Titania, driving the spiders from the couch of the Queen ! Dryden truly said that " Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he." It would have been well if he had not himself dared to step within the enchanted line, and drawn on... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 462 Seiten
...of Titania, driving the spiders from the couch of the Queen ! Dryden truly said that " Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he." It would have been well if he had not himself dared to step within the enchanted line, and drawn on... | |
| James Boswell - 1880 - 488 Seiten
...literary offspring, might bid defiance to any attempt to appropriate them to others : " But Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he 1" LETTER 76. TO MISS LUCY PORTER. " Inner Temple Lane, Jan. 18, 1'iftl. " DEAREST MADAM, — I ought... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 Seiten
...of Titania, driving the spiders from the conch of the Queen ! Dryden truly said that " Shakspeare's magic could not copied be ; Within that circle none durst walk but he." It would have been well if he had not himself dared to step within the enchanted line, and drawn on... | |
| 1882 - 1434 Seiten
...nature. t ISAV DISRAELI — Literari/ Character of Men of Genius. Vers De Societe. But Shakspeare's cnly investments worth anything. k. WALT WHITMAN— Leaves of Brass. M m. DBYDEN — The Tempest. Prologue. Three poets in three distant ages born, Oreece, Italy, and England,... | |
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