 | Ephraim Hunt - American literature - 1872 - 658 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. Preface to Shakspeare. DAVID HUME. 1711-1776. Fnmons author of " History of England ; "... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 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;...its place. The stream of time, which is continually trashing the diitoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare.... | |
 | American literature - 1872 - 660 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;...continues in its place. The stream of time, which is contln.tin.lly washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury ly the adamant... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1873 - 614 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 ; but the rock alway continues in its place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the dis'soluble fabrics... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 602 pages
...extraordinary compound of turgid contradictious, his " Preface to Shakespeare's Works," while admitting that " the stream of time, which is continually washing the...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare," assures us that "in tragedy he often writes with great appearance of toil and study,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 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 Shakespeare. (Superior to Difficulties.) The genius of Shakespeare was not to be depressed by the weight... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...them; but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither a.lmits increase nor suffers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...continues in its place. The stream of time, which is eontinually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of... | |
 | William Banks Slaughter - Statesmen - 1878 - 318 pages
...been inimitably said of the immortal Shakspeare. The stream of time which is continually washing away the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. God's gifts are peculiar to no peoples, age or clime, and of the benighted Hotentot we... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Department of Education - [Special days - 1916 - 138 pages
...combined them, but the uniform simplicity of primitive qualities neither admits increase nor supers decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another,...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare. — -Samuel Johnson. OPINIONS OF FIVE NOTABLE FOREIGN CRITICS ON HAMLET The Play A vulgar... | |
 | Alfred Turner - English literature - 1916 - 276 pages
...phrases describing the immortality of Shakespeare belongs to Johnson. " The stream of time," he said, " which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare." That sentence could only have been penned by the author of the famous letter to Lord... | |
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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. 
