 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
 | Methodist Church - 1881 - 810 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 - Drama - 1913 - 556 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 - Drama - 1913 - 564 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 Winter - Actors - 1916 - 610 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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1917 - 360 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... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1919 - 378 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... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 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 the manners and names of different times and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1924 - 382 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... | |
 | Thomas Davies - Theater - 1969 - 836 pages
...natural dialogue, andf some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained " at the expence of incongruity. To remark " the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...of the " conduct, the confusion of the names, and " and manners of the different times, and the *' impossibility of the events in any system of " life,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1988 - 732 pages
...differently to Cymbeline. At one extreme are the Rationalists, chief among them Dr. Johnson (1765): 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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