...assertion can be more egregiously wrong than one which Johnson makes in his preface to Shakspeare; that, " in the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species." The reverse of this is the fact; other poets are able, in their,...

...small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...general passions and principles by which all minds arc agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a...

...accidents of transcient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common huniauity, such as the world will always supply, and observation...His persons act and speak by the influence of those ¡relierai passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is...

...that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the •world will always supply, and observation will always find. — Edinb. Enc. 1 vol. 8vo, $3 50, New- York. Burns. As a poet, without accomplishing any work of extensive...

...Johnson has remarked, that Shakspeare's characters " are tho genuine progeny of common humanity; that in the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species." The truth of this opinion must strike every reader of the immortal...

...small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporarj opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...the writings of other poets a character is too often au individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of...

...small numbers, nor, by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species." He displays an ahuost unlimited comprehensiveness of mind, fertility...

...that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters a*e the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. —Edinb. EM. 1 vol. 8vo, $3 50, New- York. Burns. As a poet, without accomplishing any work of extensive...

...observation sill always find. His persous act and speak by the influence of those general passious ion, though perhaps he neither knows it nor values it. I wish that his being bo continned in motion. In the writings of other dramatists, a character is too often an individnal; in...

...small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions ; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will...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 instruction...