 So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination that the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed that he is represented according to histories at that time...  The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 4971765Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1765 - 652 pages
...Onthefeemingimprobabilityof i«r's conduct it may beobferved, that he is reprefented according to hiflorics at that time vulgarly received as true. And perhaps...turn our thoughts upon the barbarity and ignorance of [Exeunt isitb a dead march. Cuft'om fpoken. And the Cafe was this: He \who played EJgsr, being a more... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 514 pages
...improbability of , Lear's conduft it may be obferved, that he is reprefer.ted according to hiftoVies at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this ftory is referred, it will appear not fo unlikely as while we eftimate Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1785 - 632 pages
...improbability of Lear's conduft, it may b« obferved, that he is reprefented according to hiftories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this Itory is referred, it will appear not fo unlikely as while we eilimate Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
 | 1783 - 542 pages
...improbability of Lear's conduct, it majr * be obferved, that he is reprefented, according to hiflories at ' that time, vulgarly received as true. And perhaps,...barbarity and ignorance of the * age to which this ftory is referred, it will appear not fo un* likely, as while we eftimate Lear's manners by our own.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...improbability of Lear's conduct, it may be oblerved, that he is reprefented according to hiftories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this, ftory is referred, it will appear not fo unlikely as while we eftimate Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1790 - 722 pages
...improbability of Lear's conduct, it may be obfcrved, that he is reprefentcd according to hiftories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this (lory is referred, it will appear not fo unlikely as while we eftinute Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1798 - 446 pages
...improbability of Lear's conduit, it may be obferved, that he is reprefented according to hiftories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this ftory is referred, it will appear not fo unlikely as while we eftimate Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 396 pages
...represented according to histories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps, if we tura our thoughts upon the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this story is referred, it will appear not so unlikely as while we estimate Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...improbability of Lear's conduct, it may be obferved, that he is reprefented according to hiftories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...upon the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which fhis ftory is referred, it will appear not fo unlikely as while we eftimate Lear's manners by our own.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 488 pages
...seeming improbability of Lear's conduct, it maybe observed^that he is represented according to histories at that time vulgarly received as true. And, perhaps,...the barbarity and ignorance of the age to which this story is referred, it will appear not so unlikely as while we estimate Lear's manners by our own. Such... | |
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