| Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...pofTtffor to another claimant. The choice is right, when there is reafon for choice. Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that fhould form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
| Books - 1765 - 600 pages
...another claimant. The choice is right, when there is reafon for choice « Other * Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that fhould form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
| Several Hands - 1765 - 624 pages
...pofleflor to another claimant. The choice is right, when theie ¡s reafon for choice. * Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hyperbolical or "aggravated...unexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarou* romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that fhould form his .expectations... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...pofleffor to another claimant. The choice is righr, when there is reafon for choice. Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that Ihould form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Pofleflbr to another Claimant. The Choice is right, when there is Reafon for Choice. Other Dramatifts can only gain Attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the Reader by a Giant and a Dwarf; and he that fhould form his Expectations of human Affairs from the Play, or from the Tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...Pofieflbr to another Claimant. The Choice is right, when there is Reafon for Choice. Other Dramatifts can only gain Attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the Reader by a Giant and a Dwarf; and he that fhould form his Expectations of human Affairs from the Play, or from the Tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...pofleflbr to another claimant. The choice is right, when there is reafon for choice. Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf i and he that fhould form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...poficflbr to another claimant. The clioice is right, when there is reafon for choice. Other dramatifts can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and x;nexampled excellence or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...possessor to another claimant. The choice is right, when there is reason for choice. Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a" giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...attention by hyperbo.ical or aggravated characters, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or d-piavity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that ihould form hit expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived.... | |
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