...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1768, General Observations on Shakspeare's Plays. "Cymbeline" is one of the most...

...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." It was hardly necessary for Drake, in his Shakspeare and his Times (1817), to express astonishment...

...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation." The best and highest part of Shakespeare's imagination was not concerned, one is tempted to say, with...

...are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction, the uncertainty of the conduct, the confusion of the names and manners...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation." Other conspicuous features of the hour are Mr. Belasco's new play, called the "Rose of the Eancho";...

...shadows in a sunshine day. 2. ' To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the con- 10 duct, the confusion of the names and manners of different...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation.' Are there any aspects of the play of Cymbeline which might appear to justify this criticism by Dr....

...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation. Now if this be the last word upon Cymbeline, or even if it be rather more true than false, we may close...

...remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity of the conduct, the confusion of the manners and names of different times and the impossibility of the events...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation." Johnson had no eyes for the Poetry and glamour of Cymbeline, and he did not perceive, as Coleridge...

...sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the expense of much incongruity. To remark the folly of the fiction,...evident for detection and too gross for aggravation. Now if this be the last word upon Cymbeline, or even if it be rather more true than false, we may close...

...of rationalist critics such as Samuel Johnson and Bernard Shaw. Johnson notoriously complained that 'To remark the folly of the fiction, the absurdity...evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation'. 9 Shaw's main criticisms of the play come in a review of Henry Irving's production of 1896 which is...

...Johnson's comment at the end of the play: This Play has many just sentiments, some natural dialogues, and some pleasing scenes, but they are obtained at the...of life, were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecillity, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation. Is it enough to...