| Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 pages
...having sufficiently discussed the disputed question, whether Helen was or was not to be delivered up, says : ' Not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought * Unfit to hear moral philosophy.' This passage — which is apparently so inappropriate and introduced by a most flagrant anachronism,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...occurs also in the Advancement of Learning, has been followed by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida : " Not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy." See Hector's speech in the second scene of the second act.' Mr. Spedding has shown that the same error... | |
| 1876 - 600 pages
...heat of their affectious." In „Troilus and Cressida," bedr. II. tooneel II, komt de volzin voor: „Not much Unlike young men , whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy." Volgens Spedding spreekt Aristoteles alleen van „political philosophy;" Bacon zou dus minder juist... | |
| 1876 - 514 pages
...abjured, &c. And in " Troilus and Cressida," Hector reproves Paris and Troilus for having spoken — Not much Unlike young men whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. In his supposition that the philosopher and even the man of the worM might be born as well as the poet,... | |
| Thomas De Quincey - 1877 - 662 pages
...Sc. 2) makes Hector say in reproach to two of his brothers, that they had spoken " superficially ; not much Unlike young men whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy " — he shocks and untunes our whole system of moral associations. If it were possible that a philosopher... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1878 - 630 pages
...have both said well ; And on the cause and question now in hand Have gloz'd,—but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood, Than to make up a free... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1879 - 546 pages
...you have both said well, And on the cause and question now in hand Have glozed, but superficially : not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy : The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion or distempered blood Than to make up a... | |
| Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...his plays, " The Merry Wives of Windsor " (iii. i), and " The First Part of King Henry VI." (v. 4). Not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. — Tr. &• Cr., ii. 2. That Hector should cite Aristotle's opinion may subject Shakespeare to the... | |
| Paul Stapfer - 1880 - 520 pages
...have both said well ; And on the cause and question now in hand Have glozed, — but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy." For Hector to speak of Aristotle is an amusing anachronism, but it is difficult to decide whether Shakespeare... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1897 - 340 pages
...you have both said well ; And on the cause and question now in hand Have gloz'd, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. i? The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of distemper'd blood Than to make up a... | |
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