 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...catch opportunities of amplification, and, instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. ; It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to show how much his stores of knowledge could supply,...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now and then en,tangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...writers, to catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to show how much his stores of knowledge could supply,...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to show how much his stories of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to show how much his stocies of knowledge could supply, he seldom escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction, and a wearisome train of circumlocution,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 486 pages
...writers, to eateh opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to show how much his stores of knowledge could supply,...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...catch opportunities of amplification, and instead of inquiring what the occasion demanded, to shew how much his stores of knowledge could supply, he...escapes without the pity or resentment of his reader. It is incident to him to be now-and-then entangled with an unweildy sentiment, which he cannot well... | |
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His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature; when he... 
