The Works of Samuel Johnson: Miscellaneous piecesW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 - English literature |
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... racters can confer praise only on him who originally dis- covered it , for it requires not much of either wit or judg- ment ; its success must be derived almost wholly from the player , but its power in a skilful mouth even he that de ...
... racters can confer praise only on him who originally dis- covered it , for it requires not much of either wit or judg- ment ; its success must be derived almost wholly from the player , but its power in a skilful mouth even he that de ...
Page 172
... racters seem to have been the favourites of the writer ; they are of the superficial kind , and exhibit more of man- ners than nature ; but they are copiously filled , and power- fully impressed . Shakespeare has in his story followed ...
... racters seem to have been the favourites of the writer ; they are of the superficial kind , and exhibit more of man- ners than nature ; but they are copiously filled , and power- fully impressed . Shakespeare has in his story followed ...
Page 173
... racters of men , he commonly neglects and confounds the characters of ages , by mingling customs ancient and mo- dern , English and foreign . My learned friend Mr. Warton , who has , in the Adven- turer , very minutely criticised this ...
... racters of men , he commonly neglects and confounds the characters of ages , by mingling customs ancient and mo- dern , English and foreign . My learned friend Mr. Warton , who has , in the Adven- turer , very minutely criticised this ...
Page 348
... racters to defend themselves against the censures of igno- rance , or the calumnies of envy . It is not reasonable to suppose , that they always judged their adversaries worthy of a formal confutation ; but they concluded it not prudent ...
... racters to defend themselves against the censures of igno- rance , or the calumnies of envy . It is not reasonable to suppose , that they always judged their adversaries worthy of a formal confutation ; but they concluded it not prudent ...
Page 388
... racter ; that , for example , he makes women speak like orators , and orators like slaves : but it appears , by the cha- racters which he ridicules , that this objection falls of itself . It is sufficient to say , that a poet who ...
... racter ; that , for example , he makes women speak like orators , and orators like slaves : but it appears , by the cha- racters which he ridicules , that this objection falls of itself . It is sufficient to say , that a poet who ...
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