He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable; he therefore added drunkenness to his other qualities, knowing that kings love wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings. These are the petty... The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Página 84por Samuel Johnson - 1806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| University of Wisconsin - 1923 - 594 páginas
...senate-house would certainly have af- < ' forded him. He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable, he therefore added...power upon kings. These are the petty cavils of petty minds.1*4 But in our present inquiry we are concerned not so much with the relation of Johnson's general... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 páginas
...senate-house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer, not only odious but despicable, he therefore added...other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon Jdngs. These are the petty cavils of petty minds; a poet overlooks the casual distinction of country... | |
| John Dover Wilson - 1959 - 384 páginas
...always makes nature predominate over accident. . . . He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer, not only odious, but despicable; he therefore added...and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings." Cf. my notes, Hamlti 3.2.345; 3.3.56. the appearance of the Ghost in what corresponds with act 1, scene... | |
| René Wellek - 1981 - 376 páginas
...the Senate-house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to shew a usurper and a murderer not only odious, but despicable: he therefore added...wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural powers upon kings. ... A poet overlooks the casual distinction of country and conditions, as a painter,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 páginas
...the senate-house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to shew an usurper and a murderer not only odious but ^ despicable, he therefore added...neglects the drapery. The censure which he has incurred bj_jnmng | comick and tragick scenes, as it extends tcT all Tils works, deserves more consideration.... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 páginas
...the senate house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable; he therefore added...a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery.8 Thomas Rymer, A Short View of Tragedy (1692), cites the buffoonery of Menenius Agrippa. His... | |
| Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 páginas
...the senate house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer not only odious but despicable; he therefore added...drapery. The censure which he has incurred by mixing comic and tragic scenes, as it extends to all his works, deserves more consideration.23 Let the fact... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...more contemptible than both, a Voltaire. He says that Shakespeare made the Danish usurper a drunkard, 'knowing that kings love wine like other men, and that wine exerts its natural power upon kings/ We are ashamed that so uncritical an apology for the conduct of Shakespeare should fall from the pen... | |
| Joanna Gondris - 1998 - 428 páginas
...story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men ... A poet overlooks the casual distinctions of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery.' (374-75)" standing. What enthralled him about the multiplicity of "explanations and amendments" collected... | |
| Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 páginas
...and the whole system of life is continued in motion'. And all this is so because the poet correctly 'overlooks the casual distinction of country and condition,...painter, satisfied with the figure, neglects the drapery' (Preface to Shakespeare, in Selected Writings, pp. 264-7). Kantlan metaphysics, together with that... | |
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