 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
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 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 - 1811 - 498 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...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 - 1811 - 524 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they ar« 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 - 1812 - 372 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the cxpence 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 - English drama - 1812 - 368 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...conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in auy system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 422 pages
...dialogue, and some pleasing ' scenes, but they are obtained ' at the expense of much incon' gruily. To remark the folly of ' the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of thfr names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life,... | |
 | John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 424 pages
...does as little honour to his invention as the preceding to his judgment. " To remark," says 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 life, were to waste... | |
 | Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
...natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the cxpencc 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 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... | |
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