| Judith Woolf - Academic writing - 2005 - 188 pages
...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 too gross for aggravation.14 Shakespeare never invented story material if he could borrow... | |
| Amy S. Green - Drama - 1994 - 242 pages
...disaster: To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the names, the 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... | |
| Graham Bradshaw, T. G. Bishop, Peter Holbrook - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 980 pages
...passages: "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... | |
| Manfred Pfister, Ralf Hertel - History - 2008 - 330 pages
...To remark the folly of the fiction and 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 on unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection and... | |
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