 I know not that there can be found in his plays any deep search into nature, any accurate discriminations of kindred qualities or nice display of passion in its progress ; all is general and undefined.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 71by Samuel Johnson - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 456 pages
...pass and be gone- — the scene closes, and Pembroke and Gardiner are turned out upon the stage 4. 32 I know not that there can be found in his plays any...except in Jane Shore, who is always seen and heard with pity5. Alicia 6 is a character of empty noise, with no resemblance to real sorrow or to natural madness.... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 378 pages
...called the "local detail" of poetry. He censured the plays of Nicolas Rowe because they do not show "any deep search into nature, any accurate discriminations...passion in its progress; all is general and undefined." 4• He complained about the general praise bestowed indiscriminately by epitaphs, and once he attacks... | |
 | René Wellek - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 768 pages
...Wimsatt, »Samuel Johnson and Dryden's Du Fresnoy«, SP, 48 (1951), 26—39. 43. Lives, 2, 76: ». . . any deep search into nature, any accurate discriminations...passion in its progress; all is general and undefined.« 44. Proposals for Printing the Dramatick Works of William Shakespeare (1756), Raleigh. S. 4: »...... | |
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