 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 - Página 62por Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 375 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1821 - 436 páginas
...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 - 668 páginas
...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 - 676 páginas
...: 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 - 542 páginas
...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 - 350 páginas
...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 - 936 páginas
...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 - 526 páginas
...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 - 510 páginas
...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, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 páginas
...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 - 616 páginas
...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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