 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestick wisdom. It was said of Euripides, that every verse...from his works may be collected a system of civil and ceconomical prudence. Yet his real power is not shown in the splendor of particular passages, but by... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...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...every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of cinl and economical prudence. Yet his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth. Shakspeare is above all writers, at least above all...from his works may be collected a system of civil and oeconomical prudence. Yet his real power is not shewn in the splendor of particular passages, but by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was...every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and oeconomical prudence. Yet his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...Shakspeare with practical axioms and domestirk wisdom. .It was said of Euripides, that every verse w;;sa precept; and it may be said of Shakspeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and iEconomical prudence. Vet his real power is not shown in the splendor of particular passages, but by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 488 pages
...extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was...every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and oeconomical prudence. Yet his... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...Johnson, whose sentiments may be " I*is from this wide extension of design, that so much instructioa is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakspeare...verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakspeare, dial from liiH works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence. Yet his real power... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was...every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and oeconomical prudence. Yet his... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...extension of design that so much instruction is derived. Iti* this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was...that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and aconomical prudence. Yet his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was...every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and ceconomical prudence. Yet his... | |
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It is from this wide extension of design 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 that every verse was a precept ; and it may be said of Shakespeare... 
