 | William Roscoe Thayer - 1909 - 842 páginas
...been questioned. Dr. Johnson goes so far as boldly to assert that Shakespeare " has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found to act in trials to which it cannot be exposed." Ridicule has been cast on this hyperbole, but did... | |
 | 1909 - 498 páginas
...will not know them in the world: Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but...is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 256 páginas
...know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the .' ; remote, and familiarizes "the \voncfenul ; the "event • which he represents will not happen,...if it were - possible, its effects would probably be_ such as he has assigned ; and it may be said, that he has not onTyshewn human nature as it acts... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 páginas
...will not know them in the world. Shakespeare approximates the remote and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but,...assigned; and it may be said that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...the reader in the facts of human psychology; "it may be said that he [Shakespeare] has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed." Yet Johnson also insisted that literature should instruct morally, should help to make the reader a... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 páginas
...never lieth' Philip Sidney said; and Samuel Johnson of Shakespeare 'He shows us human nature, not only as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed'. In the words of Coleridge, the audience must 'entertain that willing suspension of disbelief that constitutes... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 páginas
...will not know them in the world: Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but...assigned: and it may be said, that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 páginas
...will not know them in the world. Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible its effects would be probably such as he has assigned,4 and it may be said that he has not only shewn human nature as... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 páginas
...dialogue is level with life. . . . Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but...be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. (64-65) The dramatic approximation and familiarization commended here are interpreted by Johnson to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 páginas
...was needed. Dr JOHNSON, as we all know, went so far as to say that SHAKESPEARE * has not only shown ' human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as...found in ''trials, to which it cannot be exposed.' What need then had SHAKESPEARE to invent plots ? Under his hand all stories were available, but, apparently,... | |
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Shakespeare approximates the remote, and familiarizes the wonderful; the event which he represents will not happen, but if it were possible, its effects would probably be such as he has assigned... 
