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“This Booke
When Brasse and Marble fade, shall make thee looke
Fresh to all Ages.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: Commentary Verses prefixed to the folio of Shakespeare
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“Few of the university pen plaies well, they smell too much of
that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis and talk too much
of Prosperpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare
puts them all down. Aye, and Ben Jonson too. O that B.J. is a
pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving poets a pill, but
our fellow, Shakespeare, hath given him a purge that made him
beray his credit.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: The Return from Parnassus; or, the Scourge of Simony (act IV, sc. 3)
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“This was Shakespeare's form;
Who walked in every path of human life,
Felt every passion; and to all mankind
Doth now, will ever, that experience yield
Which his own genius only could acquire.”
Mark Akenside Quotes Source: Inscription (IV)
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“Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask--Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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“Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh
To learned Chaucer, and rare Beaumont lie
A little nearer Spenser, to make room
For Shakespeare in your threefold, fourfold tomb.”
William Basse (Bas) Quotes Source: On Shakespeare
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“There, Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb
The crowns o' the world. Oh, eyes sublime
With tears and laughter for all time.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: A Vision of Poets
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“"With this same key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart," once more!
Did Shakespeare? If so, the less Shakespeare be!”
Robert Browning Quotes Source: House (X)
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“If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have
said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's
intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an
unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself
is aware of.”
Thomas Carlyle Quotes Source: Essays--Characteristics of Shakespeare
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“Voltaire and Shakespeare! He was all
The other feigned to be.
The flippant Frenchman speaks: I weep;
And Shakespeare weeps with me.”
Matthias Claudius Quotes Source: A Comparison
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“Our myriad-minded Shakespeare.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes Source: Biographia Literaria (ch. XV), borrowed from a Greek monk who had applied it to a Patriarch of Const
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“When great poets sing,
Into the night new constellations spring,
With music in the air that dulls the craft
Of rhetoric. So when Shakespeare sang or laughed
The world with long, sweet Alpine echoes thrilled
Voiceless to scholars' tongues no muse had filled
With melody divine.”
Christopher Pearce Cranch Quotes Source: Shakespeare
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“But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: The Tempest--Prologue
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“The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted
until within this century.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson,”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Letters and Social Aims--Quotation and Originality
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“Nor sequent centuries could hit
Orbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: May Day and Other Pieces--Solution (l. 39)
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“What point of morals, of manners, of economy, of philosophy, of
religion, of taste, of the conduct of life, has he not settled?
What mystery has he not signified his knowledge of? What office,
or function, or district of man's work, has he not remembered?
What king has he not taught state, as Talma taught Napoleon?
What maiden has not found him finer than her delicacy? What
lover has he not outloved? What sage has he not outseen? What
gentleman has he not instructed in the rudeness of his behavior?”
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes Source: Representative Men--Shakespeare
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“I'll moider da bum.”
Tony Galento Quotes Source: when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
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“Now you who rhyme, and I who rhyme,
Have not we sworn it, many a time,
That we no more our verse would scrawl,
For Shakespeare he had said it all!”
Richard Watson Gilder Quotes Source: The Modern Rhymer
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“If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read
Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human
learning we may study his commentators.”
William Hazlitt Quotes Source: Table Talk--On the Ignorance of the Learned
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“Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill
Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will.”
Thomas Heywood Quotes Source: Hierarchie of the Blessed Angels
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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.”
Samuel Johnson Quotes Source: Preface to Works of Shakspere
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“I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to
Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never
plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a
thousand.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Discoveries--De Shakespeare nostrat
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“This figure that thou here seest put,
It was for gentle Shakespeare cut,
Wherein the graver had a strife
With Nature, to outdo the life:
Oh, could he but have drawn his wit
As well in brass, as he has hit
His face, the print would then surpass
All that was ever writ in brass;
But since he cannot, reader, look
Not on his picture, but his book.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Lines on a Picture of Shakespeare
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“For a good poet's made, as well as born,
And such wast thou! Look how the father's face
Lives in his issue; even so the race
Of Shakespeare's mind and manner brightly shine
In his well-turned and true-filed lines;
In each of which he seems to shake a lance,
As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Lines to the Memory of Shakespeare
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“He was not of an age, but for all time!
And all the Muses still were in their prime,
When, like Apollo, he came forth to warm
Our ears, or like a Mercury to charm!”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Lines to the Memory of Shakespeare
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“Nature herself was proud of his designs,
And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines!
Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit,
As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit.”
Ben Jonson Quotes Source: Lines to the Memory of Shakespeare
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