 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...accommodating his^eSimen^sT;6"T5aTnfe7IiuifBy comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...theatre, when it is under any other direction, is pebpled by such characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never rise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation that the more diligently...applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theater, when it is under any other direction, is peopled by such characters as were never seen, conversing... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more...nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place.20 The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theatre, when it... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authours. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation that the more diligently...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue... | |
 | Robert Crawford - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 268 pages
...argue in a sense that Shakespeare is the only writer, that his mimesis is absolute: It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation that, the more...characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of humanity. But the dialogue... | |
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Shakespeare excels in accommodating his sentiments to real life, but by comparing him with other authors. It was observed of the ancient schools of declamation, that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the... 
