...comparison between Shakespeare and the regular writers is marked by the same victorious common sense : — The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and hramhles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and roses ; filling the eye with awful pomp and gratifying...

...English language at that time, and the "extravagance" of the poetic license that Shakespeare took. While "the work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers," Johnson argues that "the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches,...

...prerromántica, cuando en el prefacio a su edición de las obras completas de Shakespeare (1765) formula: «The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden...scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is af orest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with...

...Shakespeare wrote better and worse than other men, and Dr. Johnson in his antithetic way says :l " The work of a correct and regular writer, is a garden...brambles and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and roses, filling the eye with awful pomp and gratifying the mind with endless diversity. Other poets...