 | 1837 - 348 pages
...writer either ancient or modern. " The stream of time," says Johnson, with equal truth and eloquence, "which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare." Whatever may be laid to the charge of our immortal bard on the score of imperfection,... | |
 | English literature - 1837 - 336 pages
...writer cither ancient or modern. " The stream of time," says Johnson, with equal truth and eloquence, "which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare." Whatever may be laid to the charge of our immortal bard on the score of imperfection,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...them : but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase, nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete,... | |
 | Henry Neele - English poetry - 1839 - 264 pages
...characters and those conditions exist, the works of Shakspeare can never become foreign or obsolete. "The stream of Time, which is continually washing...other Poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare." " Age cannot wither him, nor custom stale His infinite variety." The surface of life may... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...them ; butthe uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase, nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place. C.The stream of time, which is continually wash- ' ing away the dissoluble fabrics of other poets,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 pages
...them ; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every cation, a style which never becomes obsolete,... | |
 | H. M. Melford - English language - 1841 - 466 pages
...arguments. (Watts.) Hazlitt's passion for singularity was injurious to his fame. (Cunningham's Brit. Liter.) The stream of time , which is continually washing...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. (Johnson's Pref.) At length Erasmus, that great injured name, (The glory of the priesthood... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 544 pages
...them; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare." 593. "Lives of the Poets." The effect of the critical biography of Johnson on the literary... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1842 - 546 pages
...them; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare." 593. "Lives of the Poets." The effect of the critical biography of Johnson on the literary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 pages
...them ; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a style which never becomes obsolete,... | |
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The stream of time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. 
