 ... powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction...  Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Σελίδα 182των Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 314 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it- not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness and read the commentators.' Where are we to find better sense, or ' much better English ? In the pleasant art of chaffing an author... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1887 - 312 σελίδες
...commentators. When 'his fancy is once on the wing, let it not 'stoop at correction or explanation. ' When 'his attention is strongly engaged, let it dis'dain...dialogue and his 'interest in the fable. And when the plea' sures of novelty have ceased, let him attempt ' exactness and read the commentators.' Where are... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 576 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged let it disdain...read on through brightness and obscurity, through ' vol ii. p. 47. ' Johnson's Works, ed. 1825, vol. vp 152. integrity and corruption ; let him preserve... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 598 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged let it disdain alike to turn asicTfc to the name of Theobald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through... | |
 | 1887 - 456 σελίδες
...correction or explanation. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity ; and only when the pleasure! of novelty have ceased, let him attempt exactness and read the commentators, I grant however, that to the practised student, and still more so to the neophyte, it is not in all... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 260 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity,...him attempt exactness, and read the commentators. [From Professor Brainerd Kellogg."] The student ought, first of all, to read the play as a pleasure;... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness and read the commentators.' Where are we to find better sense, or much better English ? In the pleasant art of chaffing an author... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1891 - 324 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness and read the commentators.' Where are we to find better sense, or much better English ? In the pleasant art of chaffing an author... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1892 - 344 σελίδες
...his commentators." When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop to correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness, and read the commentators. Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect pf the work is weakened. The mind... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1892 - 548 σελίδες
...his commentators. When his fiincy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...through integrity and corruption ; let him preserve Ids comprehension of the dialogue and his interest in the fable. And when the pleasures of novelty... | |
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