 | Hermann Varnhagen - But - 1876 - 80 pages
...world (Sidney, Hr. 101). Not only my former income, but those additions (Fielding, Tom Jones 8, 9). He has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials (Johnson, Hr. 266). Loyal to yon, not only from principle, but passion (Junius, Hr. 294). He claps... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 490 pages
...Persona was all that was needed. Dr JOHNSON, as we all know, went so far as to say that SHAKESPEARE ' has not only shown ' human nature as it acts in real...found in 'trials, to which it cannot be exposed.' What need then had SHAKESPEARE to invent plots ? Under his hand all stories were available, but, apparently,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful : the event which he represents will not happen; but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama Is tho mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 pages
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful : the event which ho representa will not happen : but, if it Shakespeare : that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...happen ; but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned ; and it may bo g lor blond! against whom? your Protestant brethren ! to lay waste their Shakespeare : that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - Authors - 1880 - 380 pages
...the remote, and familiarises the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would probably be such as...cannot be exposed. " This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination in following... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...acted on the same occasion. Even when the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. He has not only shown human nature as it acts in real...would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed (p. xxxi). And that must also be said by any one who takes up Plautus's comedy of ' Amphitryo.' In... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Conspiracies - 1899 - 478 pages
...Persona was all that was needed. Dr JOHNSON, as we all know, went so far as to say that SHAKESPEARE ' has not only shown ' human nature as it acts in real...found in ' trials, to which it cannot be exposed. ' What need then had SHAKESPEARE to invent plots ? Under his hand all stories were available, but,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 472 pages
...Persona was all that was needed. Dr JOHNSON, as we all know, went so far as to say that SHAKESPEARE ' has not only shown ' human nature as it acts in real...found in 'trials, to which it cannot be exposed.' What need then had SHAKESPEARE to invent plots? Under his hand all stories were available, but, apparently,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 472 pages
...Persona was all that was needed. Dr JOHNSON, as we all know, went so far as to say that SHAKESPEARE ' has not only shown ' human nature as it acts in real...found in 'trials, to which it cannot be exposed.' What need then had SHAKESPEARE to invent plots ? Under his hand all stories were available, but, apparently,... | |
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Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would probably be such as he has assigned; and it may be said that he has not only shown human nature... 
