The Character of Shakespeare (Classic Reprint)
Description:... Excerpt from The Character of Shakespeare Jonson also uses the word 'gentle' in speaking of Shakespeare's writings. He had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions (timber, De Shakespeare nastrati), but here it is possibly to be interpreted of the easiness of his verse for in the Preface to the First Folio, To the great Variety of readers, ' which was perhaps written by Jonson, it must bear that sense who as he was a beppie imitator of Nature, was a' most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together And what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
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