 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails to attain liis purpose ; as he commands us, we laugh or mourn, or sit silent vith quiet expectation, in tranquillity without indifference. centinels ; lago bellows at Brabantio's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...expectation, in tranquillity without indifference. When Shakspeare's plan is understood, most of the criticisms of Rymer and Voltaire vanish away. The play... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...Hamlet is opened, without impropriety, by two centinels ; logo bellows at Brabanticfs window, without injury to the scheme of the play, though in terms which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...Hamlet is opened, without impropriety, by two centinels ; logo bellows at Brabantio's window, without injury to the scheme of the play, though in terms which... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails to attain his purpose ; at he commands us, we laugh or mourn, or sh silent with quiet expectation, in tranquillity without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...expectation, in tranquillity without indifference. When Shakespear^ s plan is understood, most of the criticisms of Rymer and Voltaire vanish away. The play... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...purpose, whether tp gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...his purpose; as he commands us, we laugh or mourn, pr .sit silent with quiet expectation, in tranquillity .without indifference. When Shakespeare's plan... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...expectation, in tranquillity without indifference. When Shakspeare's plan is understood, most of the criticisms of Rymer and Voltaire vanish away. The play... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and familiar dialogue, he never fails...without impropriety, by two centinels ; lago bellows at Braban, tio's window, without injury to the scheme of the play, " though in terms which a modern audience.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...or depress, or to conduct the story, without vehemence or emotion, through tracts of easy and F- : V familiar dialogue, he never fails to attain his purpose;...the criticisms of Rymer and Voltaire vanish away. v The play of " Hamlet" is opened, without impropriety, by two centinels; lago bellows at Braban-(..<£ss£... | |
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Shakespeare's mode of composition is the same, an interchange of seriousness and merriment by which the mind is softened at one time and exhilarated at another. But whatever be his purpose, whether to gladden or depress, or to conduct the story, without... 
