 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 594 pages
...springs for thy rectilinear vision is fixed upon " the confusion of names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life," and, besides, " springs that lies," is ungrammatical ! All the fine writing in the Doctor's high sounding... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...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...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. — Johnson. lachimo. Strange fowl light upon neighbouring ponds.— Act 1, Sc. o. Imagen. Most miserable... | |
 | William Conant Church - American literature - 1874 - 876 pages
...verbal cavilling were, in the fine, big phrase which Johnson so unwisely applies to " Cymbeline,1' " to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon...faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation."8 It was undertaken not from any conviction of the elegance of the phrase in question,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different tunes, and the impossibility of the events in any system...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." All that we can in truth say of these startling things is this — that this learned, sensible, sometimes... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 1022 pages
...folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different When Johnson wrote this he reposed upon an implicit belief ill his own canons of criticism — the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...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." When Johnson wrote this, he reposed upon an implicit belief in his own canons of criticism — the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 pages
...lies" — for thy rectilinear vision is fixed upon " tho confusion of namea and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life," and, besides, " springs that lies," is ungrammatical ! All the fine writing in the Doctor's high-sounding... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1913 - 558 pages
...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...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.' Time was when my youthful eyes were dazzled by the charms of Imogen, that my only comment on this note... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 620 pages
...confusion of the names and manners of different ^imes, and the impossibility of the events in any system rf y sight,) Held up his left hand, which did flame and...burn Like twenty torches join'd ; and yet his hand, JOHNSON. * Johnson's remark on the gross incongruity of names and manners in this play is just, but... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1883 - 762 pages
...confusion of the manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of lite, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detaction, and too gross ist der Charakter des dienere in der novelle ein anderer als der Pisanio's... | |
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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... 
