| Charlotte Lennox - 1809 - 362 pages
..." To remark the folly 0[ die 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 ivaste criticism upon unresisting imbecility ; upon faults too evident for detection,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...incongruity. 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 evident for detection, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 528 pages
...To remark the folly of the fíctlon, 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, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 498 pages
...incongruity. 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 evident for detection, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1811 - 524 pages
...incongruity. 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 evident for detection, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...incongruity. 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 evident for detection, and... | |
| David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 422 pages
...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, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1812 - 368 pages
...the names, and manners of different times, and the impossibility of the events in auy system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. JOHNSON. Mr. Pope supposed the story of this play to have... | |
| John Colin Dunlop - Fiction - 1814 - 424 pages
...perhaps, does as little honour to his invention as the preceding to his judgment. " To remark," says Johnson, " the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...and the impossibility of the events in any system of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and... | |
| Andrew Becket - 1815 - 748 pages
..." To remark the tolly 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," &c. &c. 1 his is a language by no means... | |
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