 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...shewn in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenour of his dialogue ; and he that tries to recommend him...It will not easily be imagined how much Shakespeare excells in accommodating his .sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend hun by select quotations will succeed like the pedant...specimen. It will not easily be imagined how much Shakespearejsxcels in accommodating his^eSimen^sT;6"T5aTnfe7IiuifBy comparing him with other authors.... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - Electronic journals - 1917 - 746 pages
...not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and tenour of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by...sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen." The reader will observe that this is a recognition of the perfection of Shakespeare's synthetic form,... | |
 | Johann Michael Reu - Preaching - 1922 - 656 pages
...under some strong impression, that abides with you. Of this great dramatic poet Johnson says, 'He who tries to recommend him by select quotations, will...pedant in Hierocles, who, when he offered his house for sale, carried a brick in his pocket, as a specimen.' When you have read Julius Caesar, or Hamlet,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...shewn in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenour of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by...select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierodes, who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. It will... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...and the tenour of his dialogue ; / and he that tries to recommend him by select quota- .{ > / tions, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, \...It will not easily be imagined how much Shakespeare excells in accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...country." in the splendor of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable and the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by...select quotations will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles4 who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. It... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...not shown in the splendor of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by...quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, 19 who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. It will not... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - Drama - 1995 - 214 pages
...of his fable and the tenour of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotation, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when...house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen."7 On the surface, Johnson firmly rejects his contemporaries' growing interest in holding... | |
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Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour of particular passages, but by the progress of his fable, and, the tenor of his dialogue; and he that tries to recommend him by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in Hierocles, who, when he... 
