 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was con.tent to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I...mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and eftablilhed by the joint authority of* poets and of cridcks.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrangc, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I...mentioned his neglect of the unities •, his violation of thofe lav/s which have been inftituted and cftablifhcd by the joint authority of poets and of criticks.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he lou the World, and was content to lofe it. ' It will be thought ftrange, that in enumerating the Defects of this Writer, I...mentioned his Neglect of the Unities ; his Violation of thofe Laws which have been inftituted and eftablifhed by the joint Authority of Poets and of Criticks.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the World, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that in enumerating the Defects of this Writer, I...mentioned his Neglect of the Unities -, his Violation of thofe Laws which have been inftituted and efta blifhed by the joint Authority of Poets and of Criticks.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 Seiten
...the World, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that in enumerating the Defeats of this Writer, I have not yet mentioned his Neglect of the Unities ; his Violation of thofe Laws which, have been inftituted and eftablifhed by the joint Authority of Poets and of Criticks.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 Seiten
...the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defeats of this writer, I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities; his violation of thofelaws which have been inftituted and eftablifhed by the ioint authority of poets and criticks.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 Seiten
...or stoop from his elevation. A quibWe, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight, that >he was content to purchase it, by the sacrifice of reason,...defects of this writer, I have not yet mentioned his neglefl of the unities; his violation of those laws which have been instituted and established by the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I...mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and eftablimed by the joint authority of poets and critics. For... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he loft, tlie world, and was content to lofc it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I...mentioned his neglect of the unities; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and eftablifhed by the joint authority of poets and criticks.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 Seiten
...fatal Cleopatra for which he loft the world, and was content to lofe it. It will be thought ftrange, that, in enumerating the defects of this writer, I...mentioned his neglect of the unities; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and eftablifhed by the joint authority of poets and of criticks.... | |
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... let but a quibble spring up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that... 
