 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Literary Criticism - 1913 - 646 pages
...but if it were possible, its effect would probably be such as he had assigned ; he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed." (Nichol Smith: "Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare," p. 117.) P. 35. its generic quality. Coleridge... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Literature - 1923 - 594 pages
...effects would be probably such as he has assigned ; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed.1" What would we not give for Johnson's application of this judgment to particular cases !... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...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...assigned; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...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...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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...should instruct the reader in the facts of human psychology; "it may be said that he [Shakespeare] has not only shown human nature as it acts in real...be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed." Yet Johnson also insisted that literature should instruct morally, should help to make the reader a... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - Drama - 1989 - 238 pages
...never lieth' Philip Sidney said; and Samuel Johnson of Shakespeare 'He shows us human nature, not only as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed'. In the words of Coleridge, the audience must 'entertain that willing suspension of disbelief that constitutes... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...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...has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...assigned,4 and it may be said that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed1 his imagination in following... | |
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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... 
