| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 sidor
...obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony ; to till their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous sorrow ; to distress them as nothing human ever... | |
| 1826 - 590 sidor
...will derive much assistance from Johnson's accurate description of the component parts of a drama. " To bring a lover, a lady, and a rival into the fable;...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 sidor
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to... | |
| John Genest - 1832 - 616 sidor
...it seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction. In most other Tragedies the grand agent is Love — to bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable, to entangle them in contradictory obligations, to make them meet in rapture, and part in agony, to (ill their mouths with hyperbolical joy and outrageous... | |
| Leonard Withington - 1836 - 278 sidor
...what, and disappointed at the loss of that which never existed ; when it is his sole aim and delight " to bring a lover, a lady, and a rival, into the fable;...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
| Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 sidor
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 sidor
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action _ Z 4 oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 sidor
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other; to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1841 - 316 sidor
...whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a loTer, a lady, and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 sidor
...stage the universal agent is love, by whose power all good and evil is distributed, and every action quickened or retarded. To bring a lover, a lady, and...them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each other ; to... | |
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