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 continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those... Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces - الصفحة 62بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1774 - عدد الصفحات: 375عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...influence of those general passions and principles, by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species." DR. JOHNSON. THE DRAMATIC SKETCHER. No. I. BY JW DALEY.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...: in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was... | |
| Thomas Morell - 1821 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, s character is too often an individual — in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. The stream... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 350
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...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... | |
| 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 936
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly ft species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
| Aristotle - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...mistaking this matter, Dr. Johnson is led into the following remark on Shakspeare's characters : " In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species." Johnson's Works, vol. ii. p. 137. On the contrary,... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...and stamp individuality on every mind. Dr. Johnson, in his preface to Shakspeare, has said, ' that in the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species.' This opinion, which Dr. Johnson delivered as a eulogium,... | |
| 1823 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...and stamp individuality on every mind. Dr. Johnson, in his preface to Shakspeare, has said, ' that in the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species.' This opiiiion, which Dr. Johnson delivered as a eulogium,... | |
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