...assumption that the emotions remain essentially ichanged. Johnson says of Shakespeare (ib. p. xii.): His story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men. He tew that Rome, like every other city, had men of all dispositions; and inting a buffoon, he went into...

...censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures...as not completely royal. Dennis is offended, that Mentnius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks decency violated...

...quite indifferent to what critics of a more studious age might think about him. As Johnson says, " The story requires Romans or Kings, but he thinks only on men." He himself, as I believe,1 has explained his method in the following passage in an anonymous Elizabethan...

...has exposed him to the censure of critics, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. . . . His story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men," and so on. In point of fact the writer from whom I quote fell into an error in the case of Lear, who...

...the censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrow principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures...Shakespeare always makes nature | predominate over accident; and if he preserves the essential T character, is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and...

...censure of criticks, who form their judgements upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures...Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident. . . . He was inclined to show an usurper and a murderer, not only odious, but despicable; he therefore...

...censure of criticks, who form their judgments upon narrower principles. Dennis and Rhymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures...Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preserves the essential character, is not very careful of distinctions superinduced and...

...their judgments on narrower principles. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman,6 and Voltaire censures his kings as not completely...violated when the Danish usurper is represented as a drunkard.7 But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and, if he preserves the...

...the stricter neoclassic notions of propriety with respect to character. Dennis and Rymer think his Romans not sufficiently Roman; and Voltaire censures...accident; . . . His story requires Romans or kings, hut he thinks only on men. The line of argument leads him to defend the mingling of tragic and comic...

...of character as well as presenting simplified historical truths. As Dr. Johnson said of Shakespeare, "his story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men." The character and behavior of Shakespeare's kings illuminate aspects of the human situation as well...