To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too... Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: A-L - Page 144by David Erskine Baker - 1812Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much iucongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusiou of the names and manners of different times, and the imposh The first seven books of Chapman's... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 578 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1826 - 572 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossihility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens - 1829 - 542 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing .-cones, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility nflhe events in anr system of ! irt , were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 510 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 522 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of d ¡fièrent times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1831 - 606 pages
...natural dialogue», arid aome pleasing atenea, but they are obtained at the expenee of much incongruity. nd at alt About his funeral : and you shall speak...same pulpit whereto I am going, After my speech is different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expenee of much incongruity. tween him and Benedick; the one is too like an image,...says nothing; and the other, too like my lady's el different times, and the impossibility of the events in any tyslem of life, were In wacte criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes ; but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1838 - 522 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they arc obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events J 1 1 anv system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
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