| Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne - 1906 - 206 sider
...Johnson on the play, who, in commenting on Shakespeare's treatment of Cordelia, says : " Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of the chronicles. A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1907 - 342 sider
...crimes, and at last terminate in ruin. But, though this moral be incidentally enforced, Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 sider
...and jit"|ast'Tefnu-j liate in Tuiar- r But though this moral be , incidentally enforced, Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...conduct is justified by the Spectator, who "blames late for giving Cordelia success and happiness in his alteration, and declares, that, in his opinion,... | |
| Charles Frederick Johnson - 1909 - 418 sider
...Johnson says: — But though this moral [that crime begets crime] be incidentally enforced, Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of the chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1919 - 346 sider
...crimes, and at last terminate in ruin. But, though this moral be incidentally enforced, Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it... | |
| University of Wisconsin - 1923 - 594 sider
...Events, neither probable, necessary, nor just.23* Johnson's observations take this form: Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...Tate for giving Cordelia success and happiness in his alteration, and declares, that, in his opinion, the tragedy has lost half its beauty. ... A play... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 sider
...guilty, and will receive proper consideration in another chapter.2 1. Boi. Iil, 39. 2. "Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it... | |
| Samuel Henry Butcher, Aristotle, John Gassner - 1951 - 516 sider
...suffered the eirtue of Cordelia to perish in a just cause, contrary to the natural idea of fustice, to the hope of the reader, and what is yet more strange,...is justified by the Spectator, who blames Tate for gieing Cordelia success and happiness in his alteration, and declares that, in his opinion, the tragedy... | |
| Michael E. Mooney - 1990 - 260 sider
...himself and on what happens when he does. 22. "Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to suffer in a just cause, contrary to the natural ideas of...what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles. ... A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good, because it... | |
| Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 sider
...crimes, and at last terminate in ruin. But though this moral be incidentally enforced, Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a...reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of the chronicles. Yet this conduct is justified by the Spectator,10 who blames Tate11 for giving Cordelia... | |
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