 Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that if the latter wander ever so little from nature or actual existence, they lose themselves, and their readers. Their phantoms are lawless ; their visions nightmares. They do not create, which...  Bentley's Miscellany - Pàgina 77editat per - 1860Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Charles Lamb - 1833 - 308 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 440 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...existence, they lose themselves and their readers. Their fantoms are lawless; their visions^ nightmares. They do not create, which implies shaping and consistency.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 326 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference) as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...visions nightmares. They do not create, which implies 22 L'3 shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1851 - 396 pàgines
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — • but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 pàgines
...even when he appears most to betray and desert her. Herein the great and little wits are differences, that if the latter wander ever so little from nature, or actual existence, they lose themselves or their readers. Their phantoms are lawless, their visions nightmares. They do not create, which implies... | |
 | 1854 - 526 pàgines
...even when he appears most to betray and desert her. Herein the great and little wits are differences, that if the latter wander ever so little from nature, or actual existence, they lose themselves or their readers. Their phantoms are lawless, their visions nightmares. They do not create, which implies... | |
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