| 1886 - 678 pagina’s
...note giving his opinion of the merits of the drama he is discussing. Concerning Cymbeline he says : To remark, the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. No word of praise for Imogen, one 'of Shakespeare's. loveliest creations ! At the end of the eighth... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1890 - 252 pagina’s
...of the relative, see Gr. 244. Johnson (cf. p. 15 above) sums up his estimate of Cymbeline thus : " This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." ADDENDA. •'The time of the drama includes twelve days represented on the stage; with intervals. "Day... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1890 - 254 pagina’s
...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,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." ADDENDA. THE "TIME- ANALYSIS "OF THE PLAY. — We give below the summingup of Mr. PA Daniel's " time-analysis... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1894 - 252 pagina’s
...that of" Johnson with the warm eulogy of Swinburne. By the former the play is thus summed up : — " This play has ""* many just sentiments, some natural...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." In Swinburne's opinion, " Here is depth enough with weight enough of tragic beauty and passion, terror... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1897 - 248 pagina’s
...womanhood, the peerless Imogen. The earliest notable criticism of the play is Dr. Johnson's: "This phiy has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation." Fortunately it speare borrowed thi has made of it maj justified his choice manners of differeni lachimo,... | |
| Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 808 pagina’s
...expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of 536 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE the conduct, the confusion of the names, and manners...detection, and too gross for aggravation. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1768, General Observations on Shakspeare's Plays. "Cymbeline" is one of the most delightful... | |
| 1904 - 390 pagina’s
...command. — SAINTSBURY, GEORGE, 1898, A Short History of English Literature, p. 328. CYMBELINE 1610-12 This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...detection, and too gross for aggravation. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1768, General Observations on Shakspeare's Plays. "Cymbeline" is one of the most delightful... | |
| William James Rolfe - 1904 - 606 pagina’s
...important details which the play has in common with the Italian original. Dr. Johnson says of Cymbeline : " This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." It was hardly necessary for Drake, in his Shakspeare and his Times (1817), to express astonishment... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh - 1907 - 260 pagina’s
...Towards the close he wrote Cymbeline, of which Johnson speaks truly and moderately when he says : " This play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." The best and highest part of Shakespeare's imagination was not concerned, one is tempted to say, with... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1907 - 994 pagina’s
...are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the uncertainty of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation." Other conspicuous features of the hour are Mr. Belasco's new play, called the "Rose of the Eancho";... | |
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