 His scenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or passion : his personages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate...  The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - الصفحة 22بواسطة Samuel Johnson - 1781عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...are a kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies; they surprise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...feldom failed of performing. His fcenes exhibit not much of humour, imagery, or paffion : his perfooages are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every fentence...in fome degree, the operation of tragedies ; they furprife rather than divert, and raife admiration oftener than merriment. But they are the works of... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro, with alternate coruscations.' If lie can learn to embroider with as much splendour, taste and address as this and... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate corruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies, they surprize... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...kind of intellectual gladiators; every sentence is to ward, " or to strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his " wit is a meteor, playing to and fro, with alternate corrusca" tions." VOL. ,111. A a be more awkward than their representations of a woman of virtue and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 380
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprize... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike ; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate coruscations. His comedies have therefere, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprize... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...are a kind of intellectual gladiators ; every sentence is to ward or strike; the contest of smartness is never intermitted ; his wit is a meteor playing to and fro with alternate corruscations. His comedies have therefore, in some degree, the operation of tragedies ; they surprise... | |
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