 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...'suppose* vicissitudes of dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be saidIt is a domestick trag'edy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn fiom middle life. Its whole power is upon the affections...comprehension of thought or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pàgines
...in 1680. This is one of the few plays that keep possession of the stage, and has pleased for almost a century, through all the vicissitudes of dramatic...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. ' The same year... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pàgines
...the vicissitudes of dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
 | Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 pàgines
...tragedy, and therefore strongly fastens on the attentions of the reader."*— " The Orphan is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed'" 1 —" This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pàgines
...vicisill'd. situdesrof dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily he said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wa.iting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pàgines
...the vicissiludes of dramatick fashion. Of this play nothing new can easily be said. It is a domestick tragedy drawn. from middle life. Its whole power is...comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. The same year... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1815 - 494 pàgines
...pieces," says Dr. Johnson, " that keep possession of the stage, and has pleased for almost (more lhan) a century, through all the vicissitudes of dramatic...been conjectured, but to us they appear too obscure forv application, and were they otherwise, cannot now be felt. The " Soldier's Fortune," and its second... | |
 | Thomas Otway - 1812 - 508 pàgines
...fashion. Of this play nothing *'A -/-><~=/.y new can easily be said. It is a domestic tragedy 7 ' " ' ' 2f drawn from middle life. Its whole power is upon the...allusions have been conjectured, but to us they appear X/". /37 xz:^- .j-»7^> SL~S ? [^MS*.*] "-TS— ' s too obscure for application, and were they otherwise,... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 492 pàgines
...observes, " it is one " of the few pieces that keep " possession of the stage, and has " pleased for almost a century, " through all the vicissitudes of " dramatic...comprehension of thought, or " elegance of expression. But if " the heart is interested, many " other beauties may be wanting, " yet not be missed." Voltaire,... | |
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Its whole power is upon the affections ; for it is not written with much comprehension of thought, or elegance of expression. But if the heart is interested, many other beauties may be wanting, yet not be missed. 
