...with wings, to get the faster thither ! But this is fine workmanship on detail, which Johnson allows. "This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes." His indictment is concerned rather with the general structure of the story, the "folly of the fiction."...

...and more hard-headed tradition, whose classic expression is Johnson's comment at the end of the play: This Play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the...

...sentiments, some natural dialogue, andf some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained " at the expence of incongruity. To remark " the folly of the fiction,...of the " conduct, the confusion of the names, and " and manners of the different times, and the *' impossibility of the events in any system of " life,...

...instance of our authour's infelicity in pathetick speeches. (VII, 377) [178] [End-note to Cymbeline] This Play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expence of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the...

...probably not far distant when. ' the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of tho conduct, the eoufusion of the names and manners of different times, and the impossibility of tho events in any system of life,' m Johnson's own Katiclaf, will appear to critics a» monstrous ая...