| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it ; which is such throughout his plays, that had all the speeches been printed without the very names...applied them with certainty to every speaker. "The The power over our passions was never possessed in a . more eminent degree, or displayed "in so different... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it ; which is such throughout his plays, that, had all the speeches been printed without the very names...have applied them with certainty to every speaker." If this last observation should be thought exaggerated praise, enough will yet remain in the passage... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it ; which is such throughout his plays, that, had all the speeches been printed without the very names...have applied them with certainty to every speaker." If this last observation should be thought exaggerated praise, enough will yet remain in the passage... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...; wbich is such throughout his plays; that had all the speeches been printed without the very name of the persons, I believe one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker. " The power of an author over our passions was never possessed in a more eminent degree, or displayed in such different... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 502 pages
...to our author's works. " Throughout " his plays," says he, " had all the speeches been VOL. VII. K " printed without the very names of the persons, I " believe one might have applied them with cer" tainty to every speaker." But how fallible the most sufficient critic may be, the passage in controversy... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it; which is such, throughout his plays, that had all the speeches been printed without the very names...there is seen no labour, no pains to raise them ; no prepajation to guide or guess to the effect, or be perceived to lead toward it: but the heart swells,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it; which is such throughout his plays, that had all the speeches been printed without the very names...with certainty to every speaker.* The power over our patsions was never possessed in a more eminent degree, or displayed in so different instances. Yet... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it; which is such throughout his plays, that had all the speeches been printed without the very names...have applied them with certainty to every speaker.* How astonishing is it again, that the passions directly opposite to these, laughter and spleen, are... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 426 pages
...especially of the sagacious Mr. Pope, who has made this declaration, That if, throughout t be plays, had all the speeches been printed without the very names of the persons, man that cannot go, sweet Isis, I beseech thee ! And let her die too, and give him a worse ! and let... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...character, we must add the wonderful preservation of it ; which is such throughout tis plays, that had all the speeches been printed without the very names...one might have applied them with certainty to every speaker.1 Tlie power over our passions was- never possessed in a more eminent degree, or displayed... | |
| |