 | Raymond Andrews - Fiction - 1988 - 268 pages
...wrote, "Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. . . . such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find." It is both fortunate and fitting that the Brown Thrasher series should now include the three early... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Marshall Brown - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 532 pages
...rather, they are 'common humanity, such as the world will always supply'. This means that Shakespeare's 'persons act and speak by the influence of those general...passions and principles by which all minds are agitated'. For most writers 'a character is too often an individual', but in the plays of Shakespeare a character... | |
 | Phyllis Rackin - Drama - 1990 - 276 pages
...can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...always supply, and observation will always find.' Celebrating Shakespeare as the universal poet, Johnson ascribed to Shakespeare's representations of... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will 14 Johnson's eight-volume edition of Shakespeare's plays was announced in 1756 and published in 1765.... | |
 | Henry Fielding - Fiction - 1992 - 770 pages
...Johnson's praise for Shakespeare's characters in his Preface to Shakespeare (1765) was that they were 'the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the...passions and principles by which all minds are agitated ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare... | |
 | Normand Berlin - American drama - 1994 - 286 pages
...important human concerns. I believe, as did Samuel Johnson before me, that Shakespeare's characters are "the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...world will always supply, and observation will always fmd."14 His statement can be applied to O'Neill too, with some qualifying discussion. And I believe,... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly... | |
 | June Schlueter - Drama - 1995 - 156 pages
...relevance of Johnson's comments to the reading process becomes apparent when he notices how such characters "act and speak by the influence of those general passions...and the whole system of life is continued in motion" 7 (my emphasis). Through a process of identification and differentiation (Johnson clearly values the... | |
 | Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - History - 1996 - 312 pages
...justifies Shakespeare's canonical preeminence. they are the genuine progeny of common humanity . . . His persons act and speak by the influence of those...and the whole system of life is continued in motion . . . Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...to generate pleasure for Johnson: "Shakespeare is above all writers . . . the poet of nature. . . . His persons act and speak by the influence of those...and the whole system of life is continued in motion" (Shakespeare, I, 61). Novelists like Richardson and Fielding are "engaged in portraits of which every... | |
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His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. 
