 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...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... | |
 | History - 1793 - 620 pages
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...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 as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - Bulls, Colloquial - 1803 - 322 pages
...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."... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - Bulls, Colloquial - 1803 - 256 pages
...englifh literature. In his celebrated preface to Shakfpeare he fays, that c he has not only fliown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it -would be found in situatwns to which it cannot be exposed.' Thefe are his own words, I think I remember them accurately.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...effects would probably be such as he has 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 be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...effects would probably be .such as he has 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 be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakspeare, that his drama is the mirror... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...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 as it acts, in...real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shaksficare, that his drama is the mirror... | |
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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... 
