 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 pages
...operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly... | |
 | 1811 - 530 pages
...happens,that Shakspeare is he who, above all dramatic poets, ancient or modern, makes, as Dr. Johnson says, his persons " act and speak by the influence of those general passions and feelings by which all minds are agitated." All other poets, and the best too only, describe — Shakspeare... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 pages
...operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions : they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...numbers ; or by the accidents ui' transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the •'•nuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and obse vatiou will always find, t Us persons act and speak bv the influence of those general passions... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...small numbers: or by the accidents ot transient fashions or temporary opinions: they arc the fenuUK progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and obse, vatiou will always find. His persons :t and speak by the influence of those general passions... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions, or temporary opinions. They are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; hi those of Shakspeare it is,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...operate but upon small numbers ; or by the accidents of transient fashions, or temporary opinions. They are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...operate but upon small numbers j or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions ; they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such...the whole system of life is continued in motion- In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is... | |
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His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. 
