 | Anecdotes - 1847 - 666 pages
...observation sill always find. His persous act and speak by the influence of those general passious ion, though perhaps he neither knows it nor values it. I wish that his being bo continned in motion. In the writings of other dramatists, a character is too often an individnal; in... | |
 | John Burnet - Art - 1848 - 244 pages
...by the rest of die world; by the peculiarities of studies and professions which can operate but upon small numbers, or by the accidents of transient fashions...temporary opinions; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity,-such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight. i#*n* SHAKSPBARE. sions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions they are the gt-.Tiu.Ine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...world ; by the peculiarities o* studios or professions, which can operate but on small mini, bers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary...general passions and principles by which all minds aro agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion, la the writings of other poets a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 488 pages
...of the reader become quickened and roused into action by the wonderful power he exhibits in " making his persons act and speak by the influence of those...passions and principles by which all minds are agitated." The study of Elocution, under impressions so favorable, becomes an exercise truly intellectual, and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...peculiarities of studies or profes»ii ions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the acci dents of transient fashions or temporary opinions . they...continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a chafccter is too often an individual : in those of Shakspeare it is -jinmonly a species. It is from... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions...opinions; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, Bnch as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1864 - 498 pages
...of the reader become quickened and roused into action by the wonderful power he exhibits in " making his persons act and speak by the influence of those...passions and principles by which all minds are agitated." The study of Elocution, under impressions so favorable, becomes an exercise truly intellectual, and... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions...temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of coir inon humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...peculiarities of studies or profes sions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the acci dents of transient fashions or temporary opinions they are...all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life ia continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual : in... | |
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His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world ; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary... 
