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 xi
... should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; fo that he who ...
... should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; fo that he who ...
الصفحة xx
... should most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or imperfectly reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs ...
... should most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or imperfectly reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs ...
الصفحة xxvii
... should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field . The truth is , that the fpectators are always in their fenfes , and know , from the first act to the laft , that the ftage is only a stage , and ...
... should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field . The truth is , that the fpectators are always in their fenfes , and know , from the first act to the laft , that the ftage is only a stage , and ...
الصفحة xxix
... should be pleafed with fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agencourt . A dramatick exhibition is a ...
... should be pleafed with fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his book for the field of Agencourt . A dramatick exhibition is a ...
الصفحة xlvi
... should have fat quietly down to disentangle his intricacies , and clear his obfcurities ; but now we tear what we cannot loofe , and eject what we happen not to understand . The faults are more than could have happened without the ...
... should have fat quietly down to disentangle his intricacies , and clear his obfcurities ; but now we tear what we cannot loofe , and eject what we happen not to understand . The faults are more than could have happened without the ...
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