 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pàgines
...is depraved. But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet,...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1928 - 110 pàgines
...is depraved. But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet,...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pàgines
...depraved. But love is only one of many passions ; and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet,...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 pàgines
...depraved. But love is^only one of many passions ; and as it ha.sjio great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet,...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 pàgines
...is depraved. But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet...ideas from the living world and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 pàgines
...mood of holiday. In the eyes of Dr Johnson, I? Shakespeare, unlike other playwrights, was an author 'who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him'; and in his Preface1 he goes on to defend the dramatist for breaking through conventional... | |
 | Thora Burnley Jones, Bernard De Bear Nicol - 1976 - 200 pàgines
...with love:8 But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet,...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. (p. 108) • Nichol Smith. Eighteenth Century Essays. Surely here Johnson is applying... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pàgines
...love story. "But love is only one of many passions; and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet,...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pàgines
...love. . . . But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet...from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him" (6364). It is thus not enough to say that love is a convention of the drama, or that... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 pàgines
...is depraved. But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from 18 Cicero. Letters to his Friends 16. 8. 19 This Hierocles probably lived in the fourth century. A... | |
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But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other... 
