 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 trang
...17 Self-interest. always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides,... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1992 - 770 trang
...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...in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.' Beside this essential human nature, the customs of particular places or times were deemed accidental.... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 trang
...as the world will always supply, and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestick1 wisdom. It was said of Euripides... | |
 | June Schlueter - 1995 - 156 trang
...comments to the reading process becomes apparent when he notices how such characters "act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...and the whole system of life is continued in motion" 7 (my emphasis). Through a process of identification and differentiation (Johnson clearly values the... | |
 | Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier - 1996 - 312 trang
...preeminence. they are the genuine progeny of common humanity . . . His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...and the whole system of life is continued in motion . . . Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 trang
..."Shakespeare is above all writers . . . the poet of nature. . . . His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...and the whole system of life is continued in motion" (Shakespeare, I, 61). Novelists like Richardson and Fielding are "engaged in portraits of which every... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 trang
...furniture. Shakespeare reminds each reader of something already known. "His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...and the whole system of life is continued in motion" (7: 61-62). The reason that a poet can represent general nature, therefore, is that all minds are agitated... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 trang
...commendation of generality is common throughout the Preface: "[Shakespeare's] persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles...the whole system of life is continued in motion"; a Shakespearean character is less commonly an individual than a "species" (62); "Shakespeare has no... | |
 | Martin Coyle - 1999 - 196 trang
...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...individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species ... Shakespeare has no heroes; his scenes are occupied only by men, who act and speak as the reader... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 trang
...praised the real-life individuality of Shakespeare's characters; Johnson found an opposite excellence ('In the writings of other poets a character is too...in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species': Johnson, 11); and Coleridge's division leads him to both positions at once. On the one hand, 'he brings... | |
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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. 
