 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - Literary Collections - 2004 - 592 pages
...Henderson [1747-1786]." Falstaff, uuimitated, inimitable, Falstaff, how shall I describe thee T Thou compound of sense and vice : of sense which may be...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief and a glutton, a coward and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak and prey upon the poor, to terrify... | |
 | Brian Vickers - Electronic books - 2005 - 472 pages
...the good humour which provoked that affectionate opening direct address gradually evaporates: Thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and pray upon the poor; to terrify... | |
 | F. H. Buckley - Law - 2003 - 264 pages
...complicated a figure to be truly comic. "Thou compound of sense and vice," apostrophized Samuel Johnson, "of sense which may be admired but not esteemed, of...vice which may be despised, but hardly detested." ' * Like Johnson, we have no choice but to love Falstaff, and his fall is tragic when he is killed... | |
 | Peggy O'Brien - Drama - 2006 - 244 pages
...Novelist and Critic But Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice that may be despised, but hardly detested. Falstaff is a character loaded with faults, and with those... | |
 | John Dover Wilson - 1961 - 162 pages
...And now Johnson's : But Falstaff, unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee? Thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be...which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief, and a glutton, a coward, and a boaster, always ready to cheat the weak, and prey upon the poor; to terrify... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1924 - 236 pages
...Polonius, on Falstaff: "But Falstaff unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee? Thou compound of sense and vice: of sense which may be...vice which may be despised, but hardly detested...". There, for a moment, we seem listening to Lamb fifty years later. But, I would venture, the criticism... | |
 | 1933 - 236 pages
...Polonius, on Falstaff: "But Falstqff unimitated, unimitable Falstaff, how shall I describe thee? Thou compound of sense and vice: of sense which may be...vice which may be despised, but hardly detested...". There, for a moment, we seem listening to Lamb fifty years later. But, I would venture, the criticism... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...uniraitated, uuitni table Falstaffl how shall I describe thee ? Thou compound of sense and vice; of seuse which may be admired, but not esteemed ; of vice which...hardly detested. Falstaff is a character loaded with fanlts, and with those fanlts which naturally produce contempt. He is a thief and a glutton, a coward,... | |
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Falstaff, how shall I describe thee! thou compound of sense and vice; of sense which may be admired, but not esteemed; of vice which may be despised, but hardly detested. Falstaff is a character loaded with faults, and with those faults which naturally... 
