 | 1823 - Страниц: 936
...drawn, but perhaps never with more accuracy than by the pen of I)r Johnson : " Shakespeare (says he) is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - Страниц: 484
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. 'Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - Страниц: 432
...pleaswe^of^udden_wonder are soon exhausted, and y the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - Страниц: 350
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...observation will always find. His persons act and speak by tbe influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - Страниц: 646
...operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinion»: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity; such...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In tbe writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it i«... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - Страниц: 794
...satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and (he f them, neither liath the sun almost set upon my displeasures,...courts, fields, and gardens ; but I have found thee ill minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - Страниц: 416
...readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modi tied by the customs o€ particular places, unpractised by the rest of the...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - Страниц: 668
...awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest ; the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can...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 Shakspeare it is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Страниц: 504
...sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers,...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Страниц: 750
...; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His character*""! are not modified by the customs of particular places,...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 Shakspeare it is... | |
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Shakespeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised... 
