 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...  profaces, briogrpahical and critical - עמוד 24מאת samuel johnson - 1781תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1804 - 452 דפים
...of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to warri, or to strike ; the contest of smartness ia never intermitted; his wit is a meteor, playing to and fro, with alternate rorruscations." poetry, the English have none; they have, in their place, satires, full, indeed, of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 דפים
...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 coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies; they surprise... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 - 422 דפים
...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 - 494 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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 דפים
...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... | |
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