 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...Witches. AN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...Witches. XN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the -chief events... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 528 pages
...genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events by the assistance of supernatural agents, would be censured as transgressing the bounds of probability, be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 380 pages
...MACBETH.] In order to make a true estimate of the ahilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 504 pages
...MACBETH. IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...Witches. IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet, who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 pages
...make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the i genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet, who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 514 pages
...F 4 IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. A poet who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 460 pages
...apology for Shakspeare's magic;—in which he says, ' A poet, who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce the chief events by the assistance of supernatural agents, would be censured as transgressing the bounds of probability, be... | |
 | 1828 - 410 pages
...thinking which were prevalent in his days — " A poet, he says, who should now make the whole action of his tragedy depend upon enchantment, and produce .the chief events by the help of supernatural agents, would be centured as transgressing the bounds of probability, be banished... | |
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IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer, it is always necessary to examine the genius of his age, and the opinions of his contemporaries. 
