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" Shakespeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature; and 'tis not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. "
Fraser's Magazine - Page 286
1841
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...Shakspere was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His charaEters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a...
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...Shakespeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument of nature ; and it is not so just to say, that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. " His Characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature; arid it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. " His Characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a s.ort of injury to call them by so distant...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...Shakspeare was inspiration indeed: he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of Nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. " His Characters are so much Nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant...
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The works of Alexander Pope. With a selection of explanatory notes ..., Volume 4

Alexander Pope - 1812 - 374 pages
...Shakespear was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and it is not so just to say that he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature herself, that it is a sort of injury to call them by so distant a...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and 'tis...he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature itself, that 'tis a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 2

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...the models, of those before him. The poetry of Shakspeare was inspiration indeed : he is not so much an imitator, as an instrument, of nature ; and 'tis...he speaks from her, as that she speaks through him. His characters are so much nature itself, that 'tis a sort of injury to call them by so distant a name...
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