 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 sider
...human psychology; "it may be said that he [Shakespeare] has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed." Yet Johnson also insisted that literature should instruct morally, should help to make the... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 sider
...Philip Sidney said; and Samuel Johnson of Shakespeare 'He shows us human nature, not only as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed'. In the words of Coleridge, the audience must 'entertain that willing suspension of disbelief... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 sider
...assigned: and it may be said, that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 sider
...assigned,4 and it may be said that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 sider
...we all know, went so far as to say that SHAKESPEARE * has not only shown ' human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in ''trials, to which it cannot be exposed.' What need then had SHAKESPEARE to invent plots ? Under his hand all stories were available,... | |
 | Peter Holland - 2002 - 436 sider
...assigned; and it may be said, that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirrour of life; that he... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 sider
...probably such as he has assigned; and it may be said, that he has not only shown human nature as it acts in real exigencies, but as it would be found in trials, to which it cannot be exposed. This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he... | |
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... trials to which it cannot be exposed. This, therefore, is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him may here be cured of... 
