 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they arc obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...different times, and the impossibility of the events J 1 1 anv system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 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 crit1que of Johnson, Mr. Singer remarks:—" It is budly necessary to point out... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 526 pages
...of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the,confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.* JOHNSON. * On this critique of Johnson , Mr. Singer remarks : — *' It is hardly necessary to point... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 202 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,...events in any system of life, were to waste criticism on unresisting imbecility ; on faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.' ARGUMENT.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1842 - 354 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,...events in any system of life, were to waste criticism on unresist1ng imbecility ; on faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.' ARGUMENT.... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - 1842 - 528 pages
..."the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the manners of dilferent times, and the impossibility of the events in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." 10. Is Fontaine's Calendrier des Viellnrds. The concluding incident corresponds with one in the story... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 352 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,...events in any system of life, were to waste criticism on unresisting imbecility ; on faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.' The... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...reader rejoices at his fall." What, lastly, shall we say to the bow-wow about ' Cymbeline ? ' — " To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." All that we can in truth say of these startling things is this — that this learned, sensible, sometimes... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...what Dr. Johnson says, in a tone of eriticism which belongs as much to the age as to the man, about " the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct,...impossibility of the events in any system of life." When Johnson wrote this, he reposed upon an implicit belief in his own canons of eriticism — the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 530 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 to point... | |
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To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too... 
