 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 - 1852 - 562 pages
...some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expuse of much incongruity. To remark the fully different times, and the impossibility of the events in ajiy system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 710 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 - 1853 - 596 pages
...some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the fully be unworthy of his place, that different times, and the impossibility of the events in any svsteir of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1854 - 594 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 eriticism... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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 - 1867 - 1022 pages
...what Dr. Johnson says, in a tone of criticism which belongs as much to the age as to the man, about " e different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life." When Johnson wrote this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 598 pages
...what Dr. Johnson says, in a tone of criticism which belongs as much to the age as to the mau, about " the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names aud manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life." When Johnson... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...reader rejoices at his fall." What, lastly, shall we say to the bow-wow about ' Cymbeline 1 ' — " 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 - Painting - 1868 - 458 pages
...but they are « obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of IL the tiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, « and manners of différent times, and the impossibility of the events in x any System of life, weve waste criticism... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1870 - 838 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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