...of those general passions and prin202 ciples 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 of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much...

...masterpieces of ill nature and satyrical snarling. This was Rowe's judgment; and Johnson's was that 'In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in Shakespeare it is commonly a species'. The eighteenth century knew nothing of Shakespeare's contemporaries...

...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 of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much...

...speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.' Beside this essential human nature, the customs of...

...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 of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much...

...Shakespeare's drama: "Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of general nature. ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species" (I, 61-61). The running distinction in Johnson's criticism...

...praised the real-life individuality of Shakespeare's characters; Johnson found an opposite excellence ('In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species': Johnson, 11); and Coleridge's division leads him to...

...progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species ... Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied...

...preface to his edition of Shakespeare (1765) praised the universality of Shakespeare's characters — 'In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species' — he was articulating the principle that informed...

...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 of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.20 Whether a knowledge of nature, in Johnson's sense,...