 Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that if the latter wander ever so little from nature or actual existence, they lose themselves, and their readers. Their phantoms are lawless ; their visions nightmares. They do not create, which...  Bentley's Miscellany - Page 77edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
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...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
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...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...existence, they lose themselves and their readers. Their fantoms are lawless; their visions^ nightmares. They do not create, which implies shaping and consistency.... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1836 - 324 pages
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1836 - 326 pages
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — but passive, as men in sick... | |
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 | Charles Lamb - 1840 - 304 pages
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...visions nightmares. They do not create, which implies 22 L'3 shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1845 - 398 pages
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 | Charles Lamb - Essays - 1851 - 396 pages
...true to the laws of their own nature (ours with a difference), as Othello, Hamlet, and Macbeth. Herein the great and the little wits are differenced ; that...shaping and consistency. Their imaginations are not active — for to be active is to call something into act and form — • but passive, as men in sick... | |
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...even when he appears most to betray and desert her. Herein the great and little wits are differences, that if the latter wander ever so little from nature, or actual existence, they lose themselves or their readers. Their phantoms are lawless, their visions nightmares. They do not create, which implies... | |
 | 1854 - 526 pages
...even when he appears most to betray and desert her. Herein the great and little wits are differences, that if the latter wander ever so little from nature, or actual existence, they lose themselves or their readers. Their phantoms are lawless, their visions nightmares. They do not create, which implies... | |
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