Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, Clark and Collins, T. Longman, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, C. Corbet, T. Lownds, and the executors of B. Dodd., 1765 - 72 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة x
... seems fcarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent felec- tion out of common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whofe power all good and ...
... seems fcarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent felec- tion out of common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whofe power all good and ...
الصفحة xv
... seem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas . An action which ended happily to the principal perfons , however serious or diftrefsful through its in- termediate incidents , in their opinion ...
... seem not to have diftinguished the three kinds , by any very exact or definite ideas . An action which ended happily to the principal perfons , however serious or diftrefsful through its in- termediate incidents , in their opinion ...
الصفحة xxiii
... seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the croffes of love . He is not long foft and pathe- tick without fome idle conceit , or ...
... seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the croffes of love . He is not long foft and pathe- tick without fome idle conceit , or ...
الصفحة xlvii
... seems to have had no thought of corruption beyond the printer's errours , yet he has made many emendations , if they were not made be- fore , which his fucceffors have received without ac- knowledgment , and which , if they had produced ...
... seems to have had no thought of corruption beyond the printer's errours , yet he has made many emendations , if they were not made be- fore , which his fucceffors have received without ac- knowledgment , and which , if they had produced ...
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