 Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life.  The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 64by William Shakespeare - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...is level with life. Other writers difguife the mod natural parlions and molt frequent incidents; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakfpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents... | |
 | 1793 - 620 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moil natural paffions and moil frequent incidents ; io that he who contemplates them in the book, will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - 442 pages
...with life. Other writers difuuife the moil natuial paffions and molt frequent incidents ; fo thr.t he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the w.or!d : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he rcpvxlcnts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the ' moft natural paffions and moft' frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; tlie event which he reprefents... | |
 | 1802 - 630 pages
...is level with life. Other writers difguife the mod natural pallions and mull frequent incidents; fo that he who contemplates them in the book, will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he reprefenis... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakfpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates th« remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the...them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...Shakspeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the...which he represents will not happen, but if it were pose sible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned;* and it may be said, that he has... | |
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