 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 582 pages
...of the fiflion, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste eriticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.... | |
 | Arthur Murphy - Actors - 1801 - 434 pages
...of the " conduct, the confusion of the names, and " and manners of the different times, and the 5' impossibility of the events in any system of .'/ life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting -'? imbecillity, upon faults too evident for deteo •*/ .tion, and too gross for aggravation J* ,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. JOHNSON. A SONG, SUNG BY CUIDERIUS AND ARVIRACU1 OVER FIDILI, SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. BY MR. WILLIAM COLLINS.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 648 pages
...of the fiction, the absurdity of die conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. JOHNSON. OBSERVATIONS ON THE FABLE AND COMPOSITION oi* TITUS ANDRONICUS. IT is observable, that this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 490 pages
...of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. See page 95, note 7A SONG, SUNG BY GUIDEUIUS AND ARVIRAGUS OVER FIDELE, SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD. . BY MR.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 496 pages
...of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. JOHNSON. See page 95, note 7. A SONG, SUNO BY GUIDEKIUS AND ARViaAGUS OVER TIDELE, SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 368 pages
...fiction, the absurdity of the VOL. XII. N conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. JOHNSON. r Persons Represented. CYMBELINE, King of Britain. CLOT EN, son to the Queen by a former husband.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any...criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults tco evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. ;KINO LEAR. The tragedy of Lear is deservedly... | |
 | 1807 - 474 pages
...insipid, absurd, and incongruous, that to observe on its imperfections, were, in the words of Johnson, " to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." Shakspeare is supposed to have been indebted for some of the circumstances of tius play, to a tale... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1808 - 432 pages
...of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events, in any...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." How would a modem author writhe under a critique that should accuse his drama, of only one half of... | |
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To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events In any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too... 
