 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 pagina’s
...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 coruscations.' If lie can learn to embroider with as much splendour, taste and address as this and... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - 566 pagina’s
...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 corruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies, they surprize... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pagina’s
...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 coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 422 pagina’s
...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 coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1811 - 400 pagina’s
...kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward, " or to strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his " wit is a meteor, playing to and fro, with alternate corrusca" tions." VOL. ,111. A a be more awkward than their representations of a woman of virtue and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pagina’s
...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 coruscations. His comedies have therefere, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprize... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 380 pagina’s
...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 coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprize... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 540 pagina’s
...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 corruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1812 - 400 pagina’s
...remarkable. Nothing can be more awkward than * Dr. Johnfon fays of him, in his Life, that " his gerfanage* " are a kind of intellectual Gladiators ; every fentence is to **• ward, or to ftrike ; the conteft of fmartnefs is never inter" mitted ; his wit is a meteor, playing to and fro,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - 538 pagina’s
...a kind of intellectual gladiator? ; 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 c.orruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
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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... 
