| 1904 - 390 páginas
...disproportioned and misshapen. — HUME, DAVID, 175462, History of England, Reign of James I., Appendix. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his...a confessor predict the progress of the passions. . . . The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century... | |
| Cecil Eldred Hughes - 1904 - 382 páginas
...sums up his merits in the following fine sentence : — " It therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...a confessor predict the progress of the passions." 1 It is difficult in the face of these pros and cons to determine what Johnson's attitude towards Shakespeare... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 422 páginas
...praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imag25 ination in following the phantoms which other writers raise...a confessor predict the progress of the passions. 30 His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the censure of critics who form their judgments... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 páginas
...Shakespeare—that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in followihg the phantoms which other writers raise up before him,...a confessor predict the progress of the passions. JOHNSON. 80. SCENE FROM " ROMEO AND JULIET." ROMEO J APOTHECARY. Apothecary. Who calls so loud ? Romeo.... | |
| Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 páginas
...the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by...to general nature has exposed him to the censure of critics who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently... | |
| Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 páginas
...would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who...censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrow principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 páginas
...the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by...a confessor predict the progress of the passions.' The great moments of Shakespeare's drama had thrilled and excited Johnson from his boyhood up. When... | |
| Joseph Thomas Raby - 1909 - 168 páginas
...life is continued in motion. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirro of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination in...a confessor predict the progress of the passions. Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 páginas
...disproportioned and misshapen. — HUME, DAVID, 1754-62, History of England, Reign, of James I., Appendix. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his...a confessor predict the progress of the passions. . . . The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century... | |
| William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 634 páginas
...the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious extasies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by...censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrow principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures... | |
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