 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...  The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - עמוד 22מאת Samuel Johnson - 1781תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 456 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 2. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies : they surprise... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 דפים
...are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness r CHO. TIT. contest And let the mighty Babe alone ; The phcenix builds the coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies; they surprise... | |
 | 1916 - 792 דפים
...are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness , , , , / /@q - coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies; they surprise... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 דפים
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness use to rewe. 160 Be not dismayed, whatsoever I sayd, coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies; they surprise... | |
 | Andrew Kippis - 744 דפים
...arc a kind of intellectual gladiators; every fentenceis to ward or ftrike ; the conteft of fmarinefs is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing...in fome degree, the operation of tragedies ; they furprife rather than divert, and raife admiration oftener than merriment. But they arc the works of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 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 surprise... | |
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