 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...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 * " Quaerit quod nusquam est gentium, repcrit tamen, " Facit Ulud terisimile quod mcndacium est." Plauti... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...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... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 936 pages
...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...cannot be exposed. " This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following... | |
 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...assigned; and it may be, laid, that he has not only shewn human nature as it act.: in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot...drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imaginât on, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...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...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 canriot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen, but, if it were possible, its effects would probably be such...assigned ; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in reaUexigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...remote, and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he represents will not happen ; but, if it f the same epithets which shewn, human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...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...cannot be exposed. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his u drama is the mirror of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following... | |
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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... 
