 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 sidor
...every reader rejoices at his fall." What, lastly, shall we say to the bow-wow about Cymbeline ?— " To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...the confusion of the names and manners of different tunes, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 sidor
...what Dr. Johnson says, in a tone of criticism which belongs as much to the age as to the man, about " the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct,...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 sidor
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes ; but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." Poor great moralist ! obtuse wise man ! ignorant Doctor of Laws ! For thee Imogen, that purest, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 558 sidor
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. 'To remark the folly of the fiction,...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 sidor
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense u an ^imes, and the impossibility of the events in any system rf life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 sidor
...much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of names and manners of different times, and the impossibility...were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility (! ! IH, upon faults too evident for detection and too gross for aggravation." To our thinking, on... | |
 | 1881 - 814 sidor
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes ; but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." Such criticism as this, it is clear, can never disclose the truth or power of poetry. As well try to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 256 sidor
...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." ADDENDA. THE " TIME-ANALYSIS " OF THE PLAY. — We give below the summingup of Mr. PA Daniel's " time-analysis... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 490 sidor
...obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of me conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of...of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecilky, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. JOHNSON. SONG, IUNG... | |
 | Stendhal - 1883 - 448 sidor
...Johnson, vol. VIII, p. 473, dit : « This play bas many just senti« ments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are « obtained at...the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the liâmes, « and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in » any systenx>f... | |
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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... 
