| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 Seiten
...by such characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, npon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind....his personages more distinct from each other. I will uot say with Pope, that every speech may he assigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches there... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 460 Seiten
...mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incident which VOL. n. G produces it, and is pursued with so much ease and...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 Seiten
...misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions ; and as it has no greater influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation...personages more distinct from each other. I will not »ay with Pope, that every speech may be aseigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches there... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 Seiten
...nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakspeare. The theatre, when it...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 Seiten
...pursued with so much ease and simplicity, that it seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction, hut to have been gleaned, by diligent selection, out of...the proper speaker, because many speeches there are ' With all respect for our great critic's memory we must maintain, that love has the greatest influence... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...of desires inconsistent with each other ; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to till their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous...the proper speaker, because many speeches there are 1 With all respect for our great critic's memory we must maintain, that love has the greatest influence... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 Seiten
...violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony; to filt their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous...the proper speaker, because many speeches there are i With all respect for our great critic's memory we must maintain, that love has the greatnt influence... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 502 Seiten
...violated, life is misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passipns ; and, as it has no great influence upon the sum of...the proper speaker, because many speeches there are ' With all respect for our great critic's memory we must maintain, that love has the greatest influencs... | |
| George Smeeton - 1830 - 282 Seiten
...agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. But love is only one of many passions ; and as it...kept his personages more distinct from each other. ' Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 Seiten
...and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions ; and as it has no great influence on the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
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