 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 ページ
...same occasion ; even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent...contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world ; Stmksfieare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents... | |
 | 1810 - 492 ページ
...supernatural the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions, and the most frequent incidents : so that he who contemplates...them in the book will not know them in the world." Such are the characters of Lopez de Vega. His valets (says an acute writer) speak the language of courtiers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 ページ
...occasion; even where the agency is supernatural, : the dialogue is level with life. ' Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent...incidents; so that he who contemplates them in the book wfll not know them in the world: Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful;... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 ページ
...level with life. Other writers difguile the moft natural pafiions and moft frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakefpeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 ページ
...incidents ; so that he who contcinylates them in the book will not know them in the world.; STiakspcare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful...event which he represents will not happen, but if iit were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned;' and it may be said, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 ページ
...occasion : even where the agency is su> pernatural, the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent...contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shak' speare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful : the event which he represents... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 ページ
...same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent incidents ; so that he who contemplates them inthebookwill not know them • in the world: Shakspeare approximates thr remote, and familiarizes... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 ページ
...supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions, and moat frequent incidents; so that he who contemplates them...wonderful: the event which he represents will not liappen; but if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned: and it may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 ページ
...occasion : even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life.~"j~ Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent...them in the book will not know them in* the world : vl Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 ページ
...same occasion : even where the agency is supernatural, the dialogue is level with life. Other writers disguise the most natural passions and most frequent...contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the remote, and , familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents... | |
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Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the same occasion: even where the agency is supernatural the dialogue is level with life. 
