 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pages
...failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion: his person-* ages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Biography - 1813 - 536 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 504 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Richard Cumberland - Conduct of life - 1817 - 432 pages
...supposed to consist in gay remarks and unexpected answers — that his scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion ; his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; and his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 416 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 452 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 416 pages
...critic and biographer is pronouncing upon the poet Congreve. ' His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro, with alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 446 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Paul Ponder (pseud.) - 1825 - 492 pages
...powers of Congreve: " His * Lives of the Poets, art. Congrsve. 104 scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion. His personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor, playing to and fro with alternate... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...but that which he endeavoured, he seldom failed of performing. His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of...intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... | |
| |
His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate... 
