 | William Shakespeare - 1806
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, sucli as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions ; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In tlie writings of other poets a character is too often an indi\idual; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809
...progeny of common humanity. such as the world will always supply, and observation will al\va\ s iind. His persons act and speak by the influence of those...and the whole system of life is continued in motion. lu the writmgs of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare it is... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets a character racter is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
 | 1811
...happens,that Shakspeare is he who, above all dramatic poets, ancient or modern, makes, as Dr. Johnson says, his persons " act and speak by the influence of those general passions and feelings by which all minds are agitated." All other poets, and the best too only, describe — Shakspeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810
...of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will...motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension... | |
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In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. 
