Not to be shaken by time, nor e’er by another divided.
Robert Southey (1774-1843). A Vision of Judgment, 1821, ix. ll. 17, 18.
I look upon him to be the worst of models, though the most extraordinary of writers.
Lord Byron (1788-1824). Letter to Murray, 14 July 1821. Moore’s Life of Byron.
Schiller has the material sublime: to produce an effect, he sets you a whole town on fire, and throws infants with their mothers into the flames, or locks up a father in an old tower. But Shakespeare drops a handkerchief, and the same or greater effects follow.
S. T. Coleridge (1772-1834). Table Talk, 29 Dec. 1822.