 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 страници
...speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated. . . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a speeses.'" (5) The prominent, uniform, and familiar aspects of... | |
 | Leo Salingar - 1974 - 372 страници
...of life', he stressed the breadth of the dramatist's outlook and the ease and flow of his dialogue: In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. . .Yet his real power is not shown in the splendour... | |
 | L. C. Knights - 1979 - 326 страници
...of those general passions and prin202 ciples by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | M. C. Bradbrook - 1980 - 284 страници
...masterpieces of ill nature and satyrical snarling. This was Rowe's judgment; and Johnson's was that 'In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in Shakespeare it is commonly a species'. The eighteenth century knew nothing of Shakespeare's contemporaries... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 страници
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1992 - 770 страници
...speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.' Beside this essential human nature, the customs of... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 страници
...influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of...other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...Shakespeare's drama: "Nothing can please many and please long, but just representations of general nature. ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species" (I, 61-61). The running distinction in Johnson's criticism... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 страници
...praised the real-life individuality of Shakespeare's characters; Johnson found an opposite excellence ('In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species': Johnson, 11); and Coleridge's division leads him to... | |
 | Martin Coyle - 1999 - 196 страници
...progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. ... In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species ... Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied... | |
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In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual ; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. 
