 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 pàgines
...them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to make them meet in rapture, and.part in agony; to fill their mouths with hyperbolical joy...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though somq may be Equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pàgines
...misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no greater influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical : but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pàgines
...is often so evidently determined by the incident which produces it, and is pursued with so much case and simplicity, that it seems scarcely to claim the...kept his personages more distinct from each other. 1 will not say with Pope, that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pàgines
...before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happi ness or calamity. Characters thus ample and general were...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pàgines
...living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was1 regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be -vequally adapted to every person,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pàgines
...by such characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind....proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pàgines
...commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by th« VOL. H. 6 incident which produces it, and is pursued with so...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be Equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pàgines
...commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incideiit which produces it, and is pursued with so much ease...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pàgines
...have been gleaned by diligent selection out of common conversation, and common occurrences. tradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest,...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pàgines
...sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the firing world, and exhibited only what he saw before him....proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it... | |
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... distressed; to deliver them as nothing human ever was delivered; is the business of a modern dramatist. For this probability is violated, life is misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no great... 
