 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 602 pages
...paffion: his perfonages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted; his...oftener than merriment. But they are the works of a mind replete with images, and quick in combination. Of his mifcellaneous poetry, I cannot fay any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 pages
...paffion : his perfonages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted; his...therefore, in fome degree, the operation of tragedies; they furprifc rather than divert, and raife admiration oftener than 'merriment. But they are the works of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 454 pages
...paffion: his perfonages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted; his...alternate corufcations. His comedies have therefore, in fbrrie degree, the operation cf tragedies; they furprife rather than divert, and raife admiration oftener... | |
 | 1783 - 594 pages
...pcrfonages arc a kind of intellectual gladiators; every fcntencc is to ward or ilrike; the contclt of fmartnefs is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruications." The HendccafyUaUtts oí Ъх. " Le»!> quidcm Vrc, « pirvi forte fi per fe fpeaemur... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 450 pages
...corufcationsft His comedies have- therefore, in fotne degree., the ope¿ ration of tragedies; they furpvife rather than di,vert¿ and raife admiration oftener than merriment.- But they. are the works of a mind replete with irzta¿es, and quick in combination. - Of his mitbellaneous poetry, Ii cannot i¿y... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 360 pages
...gladiators; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted ; his xvit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate corufcations....oftener than merriment. But they are the works of a mind replete with images, and quick in combination. Of his mifcellaneous poetry, I cannot fay any... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1790 - 330 pages
...kind of intellectual gladiators; every fen" tence is to ward or flrike; the conteft of " fmartnefe is never intermitted; his wit is a « meteor playing to and fro with alternate co" mfcations." If he can learn to embroider with as much fpendor, tafte and addrefs as this and many... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - 1791 - 308 pages
...; his perfonages are a kind of intellectual 11 gladiators ; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; " the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted ; " his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alter" nate corrufc.iticns." If he can learn to embroider with as much fplendor, U'fte and at'drefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...paffion : his perfonages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted ; his...therefore, in fome degree, the operation of tragedies; they iurprife rather than divert, and raife admiration oftener than merriment. But they are the works of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1793 - 544 pages
...perfonages are a kind of intelle¿Iua1 gladiators; every fentence is to ward or ftrike; the contell of fmartnefs is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor...playing to and fro with alternate corufcations.” If he can learn to enibroi.. der with as much fplendor, tatte and addrefs as this and many other farnpies... | |
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the conteft of fmartnefs is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate corufcations. His comedies have therefore, in fome degree, the operation of tragedies; they furprife rather than divert, and raife admiration oftener... 
