 | William Shakespeare - 1899 - 400 pages
...reconcile my heart to Bertram ; a man noble without generosity, and youngwithout truth ; who marries Helena as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate ; when...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." Johnson has not sufficiently allowed for the conventional circumstances by which Bertram was surrounded.... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 494 pages
...ever been found to say a good word. "I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram," wrote Dr. Johnson: " a man noble without generosity, and young without...sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." This hostile estimate,... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 510 pages
...ever been found to say a good word. "I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram," wrote Dr. Johnson: " a man noble without generosity, and young without...sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman he has wronged, defends himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." This hostile estimate,... | |
 | 1904 - 390 pages
...reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who married Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate;...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1768, General Observations on Shakspeare's Plays "All's Well That Ends Well" is... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1907 - 252 pages
...work without weakening their claim on our sympathies. "I cannot reconcile my heart," says Johnson, "to Bertram, a man noble without generosity, and young...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." And Claudio, in Much Ado, is a fair companion for him, a very ill-conditioned, self-righteous young... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...of the stage, but perhaps never raised more laughter or contempt than in the hands of Shakespeare. I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram ; a man noble...by a woman whom he has wronged, defends himself by falshood, and is dismissed to happiness. The story of Bertram and Diana had been told before of Mariana... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 196 pages
...reconcile my heart to Bertram; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who marries Helena as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate: when...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." If the Bertram of the comedy were a real personage of flesh and blood, with whom the business of life... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...reconcile my heart to Bertram ; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth; who married Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness. — JOHNSOX, SAMUEL, 1768, General Observations on Shakspeare's Plays. "All's Well That Ends Well"... | |
 | William Hale White - 1910 - 326 pages
...my heart to Bertram ; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth ; who married Helena as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate : when...himself by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness.' This is just. Bertram is atrocious. With Helena before him he says, ' If she, my liege, can make me... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1922 - 1032 pages
...1 W. Osborne Brigstocke; Introduction to All's Well, p. xv. 1 William Shakspere, NY, 1901, p. 250. "a man noble without generosity, and young without...by falsehood, and is dismissed to happiness." The Clown is one of the least amusing and most foul-mouthed of Shakspere's comic characters, even with... | |
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I cannot reconcile my heart to Bertram ; a man noble without generosity, and young without truth ; who marries Helen as a coward, and leaves her as a profligate . when she is dead by his unkindness, sneaks home to a second marriage, is accused by a woman... 
