...possessor to another claimant. The choice is right, when there is reason for choice. Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived....

...possessor to another claimant. The choice is right, when there is reason for choice. Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...or depravity, as the writers of barbarous romances invigorated2 the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs...

...excluded by the most influential of all eighteenth-century eulogies of Shakespeare: Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, should be equally deceived....

...minds within us, as it is employed about the ideas it has got." While most writers engage the reader's attention by "hyperbolical or aggravated characters,...by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity" that "maze his imagination" (1, 64, 65), Shakespeare "finds the passes of the mind" and "awaken [s]...

...when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen. . . . Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated...invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf; and he that should form his expectations of human affairs from the play, or from the tale, would be equally deceived....