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" Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 64
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal

Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...is level with life. Other writers difguife the mod natural pauions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents...
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Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..

Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural pafiions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes t^ie wonderful ; the event which he reprefcnts...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 33

Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural pafilons and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the won*derful ; the event which he reprefents...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...is level with life. Other writers difguife the mod natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Sbakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the mofl natural paffions and mofl frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he reprefents...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...level with Life. Other Writers difguife the moil natural Paffions and moft frequent Incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the Book will not know them in the World : Shakefpeare approximates the Remote, and familiarizes the Wonderful ; the Event which he reprefents...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...level with Life. Other Writers difguife the moft natural Paflions and moft frequent Incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the Book will not know them in the World : Shakefpeare approximates the Remote, and familiarizes the Wonderful ; the Event which he reprefents...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The ...

William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paffions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world: Shafceipeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...level with life. Other writers difguife the moft natural paflions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Sbakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he reprefents...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...Shakspere has no heroes ; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the...contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakspere approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents...
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