 | George Wilkes - Law in literature - 1882 - 512 pages
...successful, when he engages his characters in reciprocation of smartness and contests of sarcasm ; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious...gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy, nor are they sufficiently distinguished from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 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... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...Johnson assigns to Shakespeare's tragedy. "In it," he says, "his performance seems to be constantly worse as his labour is more. The effusions of passion,...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 throes... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 454 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantly licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...however, have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to chuse 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... | |
 | Cecil Eldred Hughes - English literature - 1904 - 368 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm." " In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more." " In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train of circumlocution,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...successful when he 25 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 30 he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine: the reign of... | |
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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,... 
