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" In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse as his labour is more. The effusions of passion which exigence forces out are for the most part striking and energetic, but whenever he solicits his invention or strains his faculties, the offspring... "
Bolster's Quarterly Magazine. ... - Page 114
1828
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy, his performance seems constantly to be...exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and cnergetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...have been always some modes of gayety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his...
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Poems, with illustrative remarks [ed. by W.C. Oulton]. To which is ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...delicacy, nor are sufficiently distinguished from his clowns, by any appearance of refined manners. -•' In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the effect of his throes is tumour, meanness, tediousness, and obscurity. " In narration he affects a disproportionate...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...however, have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to chuse the brst. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more. The effusions of paslion, which exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and eiiergetick ; but whenever he...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1808 - 1162 pages
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to ethers, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...his faculties, the offspring of his throes is tumor, meunness, tediousness, and obscurity. In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction, and...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performances seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more....exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or sustains his faculties, the offspring of his...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performances seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more....passion, which exigence forces out, are for the most pr.rt striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or sustains his faculties,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...have been always some modes of gayety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be...exigence forces- out, are for the most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his...
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