Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and NotesH. Frowde, 1908 - 206 ページ |
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... virtue . The later history of Johnson's Shakespeare is soon told . It was received , says Boswell , with high appro- bation by the publick , ' and after passing into a second edition , was in 1773 republished by George Steevens , ' a ...
... virtue . The later history of Johnson's Shakespeare is soon told . It was received , says Boswell , with high appro- bation by the publick , ' and after passing into a second edition , was in 1773 republished by George Steevens , ' a ...
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... with irresponsible display . The faults are of a piece with the virtues ; and Johnson as good as admits this when says that they are sufficient to obscure and over- he whelm any other merit ' . None but Shakespeare , XX INTRODUCTION.
... with irresponsible display . The faults are of a piece with the virtues ; and Johnson as good as admits this when says that they are sufficient to obscure and over- he whelm any other merit ' . None but Shakespeare , XX INTRODUCTION.
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... the evil in books or in men . He sacrifices virtue to convenience , and is so much more careful to please than to instruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings indeed a 20 SHAKESPEARE.
... the evil in books or in men . He sacrifices virtue to convenience , and is so much more careful to please than to instruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings indeed a 20 SHAKESPEARE.
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... virtue independant on time or place . The plots are often so loosely formed , that a very slight consideration may improve them , and so care- lessly pursued , that he seems not always fully to com- prehend his own design . He omits ...
... virtue independant on time or place . The plots are often so loosely formed , that a very slight consideration may improve them , and so care- lessly pursued , that he seems not always fully to com- prehend his own design . He omits ...
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... virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the censure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I shall , with due reverence to that learning which I must oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him . ... His histories ...
... virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the censure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I shall , with due reverence to that learning which I must oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him . ... His histories ...
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11 ページ - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
28 ページ - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves, unhappy for a moment ; but we rather lament the possibility than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction; if we thought murders and treasons real they would please no more.
14 ページ - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies, by reading human sentiments in human language ; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
15 ページ - Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...
62 ページ - To begin, then, with Shakespeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
13 ページ - The theatre, when it is under any other direction, is peopled by such characters as were never seen, conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often so evidently determined by the incident which produces it, and is pursued with so much ease and simplicity that it seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction, but to have been gleaned by diligent selection out of common conversation, and common occurrences.
11 ページ - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
62 ページ - ... you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast But he is always great when some great...
19 ページ - The force of his comic scenes has suffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half, in manners or in words. As his personages act upon principles arising from genuine passion, very little modified by particular forms, their pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural, and therefore durable...
171 ページ - All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, " The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head; " The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, " And sleeping flow'rs beneath the night dews sweat.