 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. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of...  -III - Page lxby William Shakespeare - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...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...character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...persons act and speak by tbe influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued...character is too often an individual"; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that. so much instruction... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 616 pages
...and stamp individuality on every mind. Dr. Johnson, in his preface to Shakspeare, has said, ' that in the writings of other poets, a character is too...in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species.' This opiiiion, which Dr. Johnson delivered as a eulogium, would have been the most derogatory that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. jn It is from this wide extension of design that so much...instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse was... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...and stamp individuality on every mind. Dr. Johnson, in his preface to Shakspeare, has said, ' that in the writings of other poets, a character is too...in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species.' This opinion, which Dr. Johnson delivered as a eulogium, would have been the most derogatory that could... | |
 | Aristotle - Rhetoric - 1823 - 510 pages
...mistaking this matter, Dr. Johnson is led into the following remark on Shakspeare's characters : " In the writings of other poets, a character is too...in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species." Johnson's Works, vol. ii. p. 137. On the contrary, the characters of Shakspeare, like those of Homer,... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In tbe writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it i« commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived.... | |
 | Aristotle - Rhetoric - 1823 - 538 pages
...Frommistaking this matter, Dr. Johnson is led into the following remark on Shakspcare's characters : " In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspcare, it is commonly a species." Johnson's Works, vol. ii. p. 137. On the contrary, the characters... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 460 pages
...motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension...of design that so much instruction is derived. It i»this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which ill minds are rches, which, added to those that were entire, made...number about nn hundred. As I was counting the arc loo often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
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