 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine : the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their je'sts are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...his clowns by any [appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...have been always some modes of gayety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetick; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm : their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine : the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm : their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have mueh delicacy, nor are sufficiently distinguished from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious ; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies ha^*e much delicacy, nor are sufficiently distinguished from his clowns by any appearance of refined... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. the chief good of man, death the extinction of his...being; and placed their happiness, consequently, in on time or place. The plots are often so loosely formed, forces out, are for the most part striking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine ; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...court, precisely such as modern fastidiousness would assign to the " fair vestal throned by the west." In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...exigence forces out, are, for the most part, striking and energetick; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his... | |
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In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy,... 
