| William Shakespeare - 1880 - 676 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed, lhat he is represented... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama - 1883 - 584 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce lo the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the Poet's imagination,...the mind which once ventures within it is hurried irresistibly along. '•On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct, it may he observed, that he... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1887 - 588 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the Poet's imagination, that the mind which once ventures withiu it is hurried irresistibly along. "On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct, it may b«... | |
| William Shakespeare - Aging parents - 1907 - 342 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed that he is represented... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed, that he is represented... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1919 - 346 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along. On the seeming improbability of Lear's conduct it may be observed that he is represented... | |
| Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibily along." Johnson's emotions must have responded with great intensity to the impression... | |
| University of Wisconsin - Literature - 1923 - 594 pages
...distress or conduct of the action, and scarce a line which does not conduce to the progress of the scene. So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along.331 In one fundamental matter, however, the two critics are at one :235 both deplore... | |
| S. L. Goldberg - Drama - 1974 - 212 pages
...eventually to feel. It fills the mind, he said, 'with a perpetual tumult of indignation, pity, and hope ... So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along.' Where this current takes us - or ought to have taken us - is to 'this important... | |
| L. C. Knights - Literary Criticism - 1979 - 326 pages
...impossible to doubt that his mind derived substantial nourishment from 'this deservedly celebrated' drama: 'So powerful is the current of the poet's imagination,...the mind, which once ventures within it, is hurried irresistibly along.' Clearly the play meant a great deal to Johnson, even though what it meant —... | |
| |