 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 - 1890 - 252 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 - 1890 - 254 pages
...dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To rerhnrk 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1894 - 252 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 - Britons - 1897 - 248 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 James Rolfe - Dramatists, English - 1904 - 600 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... | |
 | 1904 - 390 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 - 1908 - 254 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 - 1909 - 320 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 impossi14 Cymbeline bility of the events in any system of life, were to waste... | |
 | Charles F. Johnson - 1909 - 412 pages
...estate.' Dr. Johnson failed to see the charm and dignity of X^^ Imogen, and says of the play : — To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...conduct, the confusion of the names and manners of differ- r~». ent times, and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 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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