 | Tudor Jenks - 1905 - 370 sidor
...quoted as authority for this advice : " Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that...wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. . . . And when the pleasures of novelty have ceased, let him attempt exactness, and read the commentators.... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 sidor
...expressed by so great an authority : " Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that...last with utter negligence of all his commentators." It was thus that the audience who first saw these plays presented received their impressions. It is... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1907 - 312 sidor
...necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakspeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that...first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all hi? commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation.... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Van Dyke, Francis Hovey Stoddard, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles Alphonso Smith, Lyman Abbott, Charles Francis Richardson, Edward Everett Hale - 1907 - 104 sidor
...Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the greatest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play,...the first scene to the last, with utter negligence to all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation.... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie, Henry Van Dyke, Francis Hovey Stoddard, Nicholas Murray Butler, Charles Alphonso Smith, Lyman Abbott, Charles Francis Richardson, Edward Everett Hale - 1907 - 108 sidor
...exactness will not interfere with, but aid, the higher aims of literary training. [From Dr. Johnson. 1765.] is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption; let him preserve... | |
 | Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 sidor
...Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel theh ighest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play,...utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancyi s once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation." So far, I have quoted from... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1910 - 344 sidor
...but they are necessary ' evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the ' powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the ' highest pleasure that...let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theo' bald and of Pope. Let him read on, through bright' ness and obscurity, through integrity and... | |
 | Mary Fisher - 1912 - 330 sidor
...necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the poems of Shakespeare and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give read every play from the first to the last with the utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing,... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 678 sidor
...than follow the advice of Dr. Johnson : " Let him who is unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that...last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. . . . Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption ; let him... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1913 - 672 sidor
...than follow the advice of Dr. Johnson: " Let him who is unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that...last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. . . . Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption; let him preserve... | |
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Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter... 
