 | Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 240 pages
...ridiculous, which is at bottom a combination of sound moral judgment with Jighthearted good humor. But they are concerned with the diversities of the world instead of with its unities : they are so irreligious that they exploit popular religion for professional purposes without delicacy or scruple... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1903 - 300 pages
...less akin to my own. Mark the word peculiar. I read Dickens and Shakespear without shame or stint; but their pregnant observations and demonstrations of...are not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion : on the contrary, Dickens's sentimental assumptions are violently contradicted by his observations;... | |
 | Renée M. Deacon - 1910 - 116 pages
...us no intellectually coherent drama"; and speaking elsewhere of Dickens and Shakespear, he says : " Their pregnant observations and demonstrations of...not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion." Let us examine this charge against Shakespear. Is it true ? One thing at least is certain. If he had... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - 1911 - 626 pages
...insists that in spite of their combination of sound moral judgment with light-hearted good-humour, they are concerned with the diversities of the world instead of with its unities. His highest meed of praise goes to the artist-philosopher who identifies himself with the purpose of... | |
 | Darrell Figgis - 1911 - 370 pages
...be done. Moreover, the same critic has declared his lack of sympathy with Shakespeare because his " pregnant observations and demonstrations of life are...not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion." To this, of course, there are a considerable number of replies. One is, that it is impossible to give... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1921 - 1014 pages
...Shakspere because they did not do this. He says: I read Dickens and Shakespeare without shame or stint; but their pregnant observations and demonstrations of...concerned with the diversities of the world instead of its unities. This sketch would not be complete without the passing of certain observations upon the... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...akin to my own. Mark the word peculiar. I read Dickens and Shakespear without shame or stint ; but their pregnant observations and demonstrations of...are not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion : on the contrary, Dickens's sentimental assumptions are violently contradicted by his observations... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1124 pages
...ridiculous, which is at bottom a combination of sound moral judgment with lighthearted good humor. But they are concerned with the diversities of the world instead of with its unities. . . Now you cannot say this of the works of the artistphilosophers. You cannot say it, for instance,... | |
 | Bernard Shaw - 1930 - 296 pages
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 | Bernard Shaw - 1935 - 1198 pages
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I read Dickens and Shakespear without shame or stint; but their pregnant observations and demonstrations of life are not co-ordinated into any philosophy or religion... 
