 | 1801 - 664 páginas
...CriticiSm is not always So preciSe as elo4uent : he Says Somewhere: ¿1 In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in thoSe of ShakeSpeare, it is commonly a Species.” The diametrically oppoSite pofition would have approached nearer to truth, Shakefpeare delights to individualize... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 páginas
...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is loo often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. " It is from this wide extention of design, that so much instruction is derived. It is this which 6lls... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 páginas
...decay. The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in its place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a .style which never becomes obsolete,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 páginas
...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character racter is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills... | |
 | George Daniel - 1815 - 130 páginas
...illiterate field-preachers, I shall only oppose one short sentence, written by DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON : " The stream of time, which is continually washing the...dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury the adamant of SHAKSFEARE !" * Now stop your noses readers all, and some, For here's a tun of midnight... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 páginas
...The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in it's place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. ' If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 páginas
...The sand heaped by one flood is scattered by another, but the rock always continues in it's place. The stream of time, which is continually washing the...other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakspeare. ' If there be, what I believe there is, in every nation, a stile which never becomes obsolete,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 páginas
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion- In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. Iti* this which fills... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 páginas
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills... | |
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... progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is... 
