 Shakespear's comic talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and profundity. All that I before wished was, not to admit that the former preponderated....  A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature - Page 300by August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1833 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1816 - 564 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and...taken any of them ; whereas in the serious part of his drama, he has generally laid hold of something already known. His comic characters are equally true,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1817 - 392 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and...any of them ; whereas, in the serious part of his drama, he has generally laid hold of something already known. His comic characters are equally true,... | |
 | English literature - 1817 - 552 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and...admit that the former preponderated. He is highly invective in comic situations ami motives: it will be Jnrdly possible to shew wheiice-iic lias taken... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 342 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetick and tragick: it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and...the former preponderated. He is highly inventive in comick situations and motives. It will be hardly possible to show whence he has taken any of them ;... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 328 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetick and tragick: it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and...the former preponderated. He is highly inventive in coinick situations and motives. It will be hardly possible to show whence he has taken any of them... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 624 pages
...motives on human nature. Shakspeare's comic talent is equally wonderful with his pathetic and tragic. He is highly inventive in comic situations and motives...possible to show whence he has taken any of them. His comic characterization is equally true, various and profound with his serious." In regard to his... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic ; it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and...generally laid hold of something already known. His comic characterisation is equally true, various, and profound, with bis serious. So little is he disposed... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...talent is equally wonderful with that which he has shown in the pathetic and tragic : it stands on an equal elevation, and possesses equal extent and profundity. All that I before wished was, not to'admitthat the former preponderated. He is highly inventive in comic situations and motives. It will... | |
 | Francis Lieber - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 618 pages
...motives on human nature. Shakspeare's comic talent is equally wonderful with his pathetic and tragic. He is highly inventive in comic situations and motives:...possible to show whence he has taken any of them. His comic characterization is equally true, various and profound with his serious." In regard tc his... | |
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