The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].Talboys and Wheeler, 1825 |
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Stran 128
... Plautus ; from the only play of Plautus which was then in English . What can be more probable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inac- cessible ? Whether he knew the ...
... Plautus ; from the only play of Plautus which was then in English . What can be more probable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inac- cessible ? Whether he knew the ...
Stran 376
... Plautus , unless it shall be thought better to reckon Plautus with Terence , to make the third and high- est age of the Latin comedy , which may properly be called the new comedy , especially with regard to Terence , who was the friend ...
... Plautus , unless it shall be thought better to reckon Plautus with Terence , to make the third and high- est age of the Latin comedy , which may properly be called the new comedy , especially with regard to Terence , who was the friend ...
Stran 377
... Plautus and Te- rence , the only authors of whom we are in possession , give us a fuller notion of the real nature of their comedy , with respect , at least , to their own times , than can be received from names and terms , from which ...
... Plautus and Te- rence , the only authors of whom we are in possession , give us a fuller notion of the real nature of their comedy , with respect , at least , to their own times , than can be received from names and terms , from which ...
Stran 380
... Plautus is ingenious in his designs , happy in his conceptions , and fruitful of invention . He has , however , according to Ho- race , some low jocularities ; and those smart sayings , which made the vulgar laugh , made him be pitied ...
... Plautus is ingenious in his designs , happy in his conceptions , and fruitful of invention . He has , however , according to Ho- race , some low jocularities ; and those smart sayings , which made the vulgar laugh , made him be pitied ...
Stran 382
... of style , he descends without meanness ; when he attempts the sublime , he is elevated without obscurity ; and no man Preface to Plautus . Paris , 1684 . has ever had the art of blending all the different 382 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
... of style , he descends without meanness ; when he attempts the sublime , he is elevated without obscurity ; and no man Preface to Plautus . Paris , 1684 . has ever had the art of blending all the different 382 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
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Stran 107 - His first defect is that to which mav be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Stran 97 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight...
Stran 145 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Stran 105 - His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
Stran 48 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Stran 113 - The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players.
Stran 82 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Stran 65 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Stran 102 - Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...
Stran 107 - When he found himself near the end of his work and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.