 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 strani
...always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...skill, his comedy to be instinct. The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners... | |
 | Darrell Figgis - 1911 - 370 strani
...always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct." This pronouncement is astonishing enough, in all conscience. Regarding it from without, it is as though... | |
 | Puerto Rico. Department of Education - 1916 - 148 strani
...supernatural literary expression. — Richard Le Galliene. SHAKESPEARE'S COMIC ART The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1926 - 392 strani
...of exciting laughter and sorrow- not only in one mind but in one composition... His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct." In 1782, Anmi Seward, in a poem on'the Stratford Monument, said : " Not Homer's self such matchless... | |
 | 1909 - 498 strani
...alviays something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. [ His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by in- ; cident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy i to be instinct. The force of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 strani
...always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to 1 be instinct. tjs The force of his comick scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 strani
...always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...skill, his comedy to be instinct. The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 strani
...always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct. (p. 112) There are peculiarities in this judgment which on reflection might be adequately explained... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 strani
...idiomatic and full bodied, and Johnson was capable of writing, 'His comedy pleases by the thoughts and language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action'. Johnson's great virtues as a critic did not include an understanding of Shakespeare's idiom. For him,... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 strani
...always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy...tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct." A pamphlet by William Lauder had sought to expose Paradise Lost as a tissue of plagiarisms from modern... | |
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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. 
