 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...monument of honour. He has fcenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion. I am indeed far from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection; when they... | |
 | Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...of honour. ' He has fccnes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclufion. I am indeed far from thinking, that his works -were wrought to his own ideas of perfection... | |
 | Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...of honour. , ' He has fcenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the concUifion. I am indeed far from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...monument of honour. He has fcenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, •would be heard to the conclufion. I am indeed far from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...monument of honour. He has fcenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclufion. I am indeed tar [C 4 ] from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Monument of Honour. He has Scenes of undoubted and perpetual Excellence, but perhaps not one Play, which, if it were now exhibited as the Work of a contemporary Writer, would be heard to the Conclufion. I am indeed far from thinking that bis Works were wrought to his own Ideas of Perfection... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...Dodtor overthrows all this within a few pages, for Shakefpeare has ' perhaps not ' one play, which if it were now exhibited as the work of ' a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclujion .f".' The Rambler cannot always fupprefs his thorough contempt for the tafte of the public.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...monument of honour. He has fcenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence ; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclufion. I 'am indeed far from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...monument of honour. He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion. I am indeed fary from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of pcrfeclion ; when they... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...monument of honour. He has fcenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclufion. I am indeed far from * It appears, from the induction of B«n Jonfon's HM-tlxioaKvi-Yair,... | |
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He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion. 
