 To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too...  Biographia Dramatica: Names of the dramas: A-L - Page 144by David Erskine Baker - 1812Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1913 - 558 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. 'To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life were to waste criticism... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 620 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. n heaven ; Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,...Incenses them to send destruction. Cic. Why, saw you different ^imes, and the impossibility of the events in any system rf life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | Comparative linguistics - 1883 - 762 pages
...judgement' ist jetzt wie die ansieht Johnson's vollständig zurückgewiesen. 'To remark', sagt Johnson, 'the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of lite, were to waste... | |
 | Charles Cowden Clarke, Mary Cowden Clarke - 1879 - 884 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Britons - 1881 - 256 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | Stendhal - 1883 - 448 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are « obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of « the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the liâmes, « and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in » any systenx>f... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 254 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1884 - 464 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | 1886 - 626 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark, the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | 1886 - 680 pages
...note giving his opinion of the merits of the drama he is discussing. Concerning Cymbeline he says : To remark, the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
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