 ... and observation will always find. 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...  Berliner allgemeine musikalische Zeitung - Page 32edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...In the writings of other poets a character is too often an, individual ; • in those of Shakspere it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so' nuich instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspere with practical axioms and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature;'...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. " It is from this wide extention of design, that so much instruction is derived. It is this which 6lls the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms, and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 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...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is, above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. lu the writmgs of other poets a character is too often an individual;...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the piays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestirk wisdom. .It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...life is continued in motion. In tlie writings of other poets a character is too often an indi\idual; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature...so •much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...the writings of other poets a character racter is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension...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,... | |
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