| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 páginas
...not sufficiently Roman, and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely royal. Dennis is offended l that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the...the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and, if he preserves the essential character,... | |
| Hugh Walker - 1915 - 400 páginas
...him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgment upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire...the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential character,... | |
| Wilhelm Viëtor - 1915 - 714 páginas
...passion, äs it was regulär or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity . . . Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident, and...essential character, is not very careful of distinctions superindwced and adventitious. His story reguires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men. He knew... | |
| University of Wisconsin - 1923 - 594 páginas
...him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire...as not completely royal. Dennis is offended, that Mentnius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated... | |
| 1909 - 498 páginas
...him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrow principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire...the Danish Usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature | predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential T character,... | |
| John Dover Wilson - 1959 - 384 páginas
...him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgements upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire...the Danish Usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident. . . . He was inclined to show an usurper... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 páginas
...him to the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire...the Danish Usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preserves the essential character,... | |
| Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 páginas
...their judgments on narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman,6 and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely...violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard.7 But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and, if he preserves the... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...brushes aside the stricter neoclassic notions of propriety with respect to character. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire...the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; . . . His story requires Romans or kings,... | |
| H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 páginas
...'those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated' (Preface, p. 61). 'Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and...superinduced and adventitious. His story requires Romans and Kings, but he thinks only on men' (p. 65). One might say, indeed, that Shakespeare's characters... | |
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