 | Edmund Burke - History - 1877 - 660 pages
...never come in contact, and seem to his perception to belong to the stage once tersely described as peopled by "such characters as were never seen, conversing...which will never arise in the commerce of mankind." "The Prime Minister. By Anthony Trollope." — The feeling we entertain towards Mr. Trollope's best-known... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...were never feen, converfing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it, and is purfued with fo much eafe and fimplicity,... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...when it is under any other direction, is peo' pled by fuch characters as were nevor feen, cOnverGng in a ' language which was never heard, upon topics which will ' never arife in the commerce of mankind .J-.' The weakeit of Johnfon's admirers will blufli in reading this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 500 pages
...were never feen, converfing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which R a produces produces it, and is purfued with fo much... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...be applied to every stage but that of Shakspere. The theatre, when it is under any other direaion, is peopled by such characters as were never seen,...conversing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arise in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1790 - 1058 pages
...wnen it ¡ь under any other directi.>n, is peopled by inch characters as were never feen, converfing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never arife in the commerce of mankir.d. But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...were never feen, converting in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it, and is purfued with fo much eafe and fimplicity,... | |
 | History - 1793 - 620 pages
...when it is under any other direction, is peo. pled by fuch characters as were never feen, con verfing in a language which was never heard, upon topics which will never ariie in the commerce of mankind. lint the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...were never feen, converfing in a language which was never heard, upon topicks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind. But the dialogue of this author is often fo evidently determined by the incident which produces it, and is purfued with fo much eafe and fimplicity,... | |
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... that the more diligently they were frequented, the more was the student disqualified for the world, because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other place. The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare. 
