 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets, a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | 1821 - 436 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles, by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly a species." DR. JOHNSON. THE DRAMATIC SKETCHER. No. I. BY JW DALEY.... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1821 - 542 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets, s character is too often an individual — in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. The stream... | |
 | 1823 - 936 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare, it is commonly a species. " It is from this wide extension of design that so... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual : in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare it is commonly ft species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...poets, a character is too often an individual"; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that. so much... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1823 - 636 pages
...and stamp individuality on every mind. Dr. Johnson, in his preface to Shakspeare, has said, ' that in the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species.' This opinion, which Dr. Johnson delivered as a eulogium,... | |
 | Aristotle - 1823 - 510 pages
...mistaking this matter, Dr. Johnson is led into the following remark on Shakspeare's characters : " In the writings of other poets, a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakspeare, it is commonly a species." Johnson's Works, vol. ii. p. 137. On the contrary,... | |
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In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. 
