 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 sider
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen ; but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...assigned ; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as as it would be found in trials, to which it... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 sider
...effeits would probably be fuch as he has aiTigned ; and it may be faiJ, thai he has not only (hewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be expofed. This therefore is the praife of Shakefpeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he... | |
 | 1793 - 620 sider
...еЯесЪ would be probably fuch as he has affigned : and it may be faid, that he has not only ihewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be expofed. This, therefore, is the praife of Shakefpeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 sider
...effects would probably be ftach as he has affigned ; and it may be faid, that he lr.s not only fhewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be expofed. This therefore is the praife of Shakefpeare, that his <Jrarna_js_the mirror of life; that... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 sider
...effects would probably be fuch as he has affigned ;7 and it may be faid, that he has not only fhown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be expofed. This therefore is the praife of Shakfpeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1803 - 322 sider
...Dr. Johnson, the leviathan of english literature. In his celebrated preface to Shakspeare he says, that ' he has not only shown human nature as it acts in. real exigencies, but as it would be found in situations to which it cannot be exposed.' These are his own words; I think I remember them accurately."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 sider
...the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...assigned ; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 sider
...the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible, its effects would probably be .such...assigned ; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 sider
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shaksficare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 sider
...the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...assigned;* and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot... | |
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Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would probably be such as he has assigned; and it may be said that he has not only shown human nature... 
