 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 93de Samuel Johnson - 1806Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 544 pages
...commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious. In tragedy, his performance seems to be constantly to the sear/ 11 the yellow leaf: And that which should...age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, energetic : but whenever he solicits his invention or strains his faculties, the offspring of his throes... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 pages
...to which, as Kymer also maintained, he was by nature less disposed and fitted — are said to seem ' constantly to be worse as his labour is more. The...exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetic ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labor is more. The effusions of passion, which exigence forces out, are for the mo-t part striking and energetic; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pages
...have been always some modes of gaiety preferable to others, and a writer ought to choose the best. truly ow'd: I Meet we the medicin of the sickly weal . And effusipjmiLpassipn, which exigence forces out, are for the inostpart striking "amTehergeltc ; but whenever... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 pages
...Johnson assigns to Shakespeare's tragedy. "In it," he says, "his performance seems to be constantly worse as his labour is more. The effusions of passion,...throes is tumour, meanness, tediousness, and obscurity " (p. xl). And Warton, in his ' History of English Poetry,' holds the same view, when he rates the... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1895 - 578 pages
...to which, as Kymer also maintained, he was by nature less disposed and fitted — are said to seem ' constantly to be worse as his labour is more. The...exigence forces out, are for the most part striking and energetic ; but whenever he solicits his invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 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...most part striking and energetick ; but whenever he sojicitsjiis invention, or strains his faculties, the offspring of his throes is tumour, meanness,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 pages
...writer ought to choose the best. In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labor 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 of his throes... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 454 pages
...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 of his throes is tumor, meanness, tediousness, and obscurity. In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction,... | |
 | Cecil Eldred Hughes - 1904 - 368 pages
...successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm." " In tragedy his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more." " In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train of circumlocution,... | |
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