| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 572 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...the names and manners of different times, and the impossihility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism npon uuresisting imbecility,... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing .-cones, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...manners of different times, and the impossibility nflhe events in anr system of ! irt , were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faulb... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 510 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.—JOHNSON. In this drama, poetical j ustice has been strictly observed, the vicious characters... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogue», arid aome pleasing atenea, but they are obtained at the expenee of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and íþ çro*a for ftggramion.* JOHNSOi4. * Johnson1« remark on the gross incongruity of names and manners... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 528 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...the confusion of the names and manners of different limes, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of d ¡fièrent times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expenee t; tyslem of life, were In wacte criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes ; but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.* JOHNSON. • On this critique of Johnson, Mr. Singer remarks :— " It is hardly necessary lo point... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1838 - 320 pages
...tediousness, and obscurity" — with much more to the like effect. Again we are told of one of his plays, — "To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility," &c. &c. This is a language by no means allowable in speaking of Shakspeare, — it is indeed far better... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1838 - 396 pages
...tediousness, and obscurity" — with much more to the like effect. Again we are told of one of his plays, — "To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...events in any system of life, were to waste criticism Xn unresisting imbecility," &c. &c. This is a language by no means wable in speaking of Shakspeare,... | |
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