 ... clash of wit, in which nothing flows necessarily from the occasion, or is dictated by nature. The characters both of men and women are either fictitious and artificial, as those of Heartwell and the Ladies; or easy and common, as Wittol a tame idiot,...  The lives of the English poets - Page 184by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 472 pages
...produced, by marrying a woman in a mafk. this gay comedy, when all thefe dedudlions are made, will ftill remain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties : the dialogue is quick and rparkling, the incidents fuch as feize the attention, and the wit fo exuberant that it o'er-informs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...by marrying a woman in a mafk. Yet tins gay comedy, when all thefe deductions are made, will flill remain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties : the dialogue is quick and fparkling, the incidents fuch as feize the attention, and the wit fo exuberant that it " o'er-informs... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pages
...Ladies ; or easy and common, as Witlol, a tame idiot ; Bluff", a swaggering coward, and Fondlewift:, a jealous Puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from...probably produced, by marrying a woman in a mask.' The first essay of Sheridan is not without the artificial and fancif.il characters of juvenile genius,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...and the Ladies; or easy and common, as Wtttol a tame idiot, Sluf a swaggering coward, and Fondlewife a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from...comedy, when all these deductions are made, will still rtjnain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties : the dialogue is quick and sparkling, the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...marrying a woman in a mafk. Yet Yet this gay comedy, when all thefe deductions are made, will ftill remain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties ; the dialogue is quick and fparkling, the incidents fuch as feize the attention, and the wit fo exuberant that it " o'er-informs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...by marrying a woman in a mafk. Yet this gay comedy, when all thefe deductions are made, will ftill remain the work of very powerful and fertile faculties ; the dialogue is quick and fparkling, the incidents fuch as feize the attention, and the wit fo exuberant that it " o'er-informs... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...the Ladies; or easy and common, as Wittal a tame idiot,. Bluff a swaggering coward, and Fondle~j.if» a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from...by marrying a woman in a mask. Yet this gay comedy, w hen all these deductions are made, will still re•main the work of very powerful and fertile faculties:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...and the ladies; or easy and common, as Wittol a tame idiot, Bluff a swaggering coward, and Fondlewife a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from...seize the attention, and the wit so exuberant, that it " o'er informs its tenement." Next year he gave another specimen of his abilities in The Double Dealer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...the ladies ; or easy and common, as Wlttol a tame idiot, Klaff a swaggering coward, and fondlnvife a jealous puritan ; and the catastrophe arises from...->-Yet this gay comedy, when all these deductions arc made, will still remain the work of very powerful and ferule faculties ; the dialogue is quick... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 596 pages
...dictated by nature. The characters both of men and women are cither fictitious and artificial, as those of Yet this gay comedy, when all these deductions are...and fertile faculties ; the dialogue is quick and sparkling1, the incidents such as seize the attention, and the wit so exuberant that it " o'er-inform«... | |
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