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" ... distressed; to deliver them as nothing human ever was delivered; is the business of a modern dramatist. For this probability is violated, life is misrepresented, and language is depraved. But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no great... "
Complete Works: With Dr. Johnson's Preface, a Glossary, and an Account of ... - Page 4
by William Shakespeare - 1838 - 926 pages
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Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books: With Introductions, Notes and ...

Books - 1910 - 482 pages
...entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Twelve Centuries of English Poetry and Prose

Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - English literature - 1910 - 776 pages
...plot T An Alexandrian philosopher to whom were attributed certain jpsts which Johnson once translated. ard he laboured, long and well ; O 'er his work the...period, He stopped and sang, ' ' Praise God ! ' ' 4 The have nothing characteristical ; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every pi'ison,...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theatre, when it is under any other direction,...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theatre, when it is under any other direction,...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theatre, when it is under any other direction,...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...of a modern dramatist. For I this, probability is violated, life is misrepresented, and language j is depraved. But love is only one of many passions;...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but, perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 39

Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...entangle them in contradictory obligations, perplex them with oppositions of interest, and harrass them with violence of desires inconsistent with each...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical; but perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Johnson on Shakespeare

Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pages
...misrepresented, and language K is depraved. But love is^only one of many passions ; and as it ha.sjio great influence upon the sum of life, it has little...proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but perhaps, though some may be equally adapted to every person, it...
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Literary Criticism: Pope to Croce

Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - Literary Criticism - 1962 - 676 pages
...any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. The theater, when it is under any other direction, is peopled by...distinct from each other. I will not say with Pope 5 that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches there are which have...
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Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 2, Voltaire to Hugo

Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 298 pages
...Petronius. Satyricon 1 : i . the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him < 1:01/23940 > . He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular...more distinct from each other. I will not say with Pope2 1 that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker, because many speeches there are which...
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