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 v
... Some feem to admire indifcriminately what- ever has been long preferved , without confidering that time has fometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent excellence ; and the mind ...
... Some feem to admire indifcriminately what- ever has been long preferved , without confidering that time has fometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent excellence ; and the mind ...
الصفحة xxxvi
... Some have imagined , that they have discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought ...
... Some have imagined , that they have discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought ...
الصفحة lix
... hereafter be explained , having , I hope , illustrated some , which others have neglected or mif- taken , fometimes by fhort remarks , or marginal di- rections , rections , such as every editor has added at his ' PREFACE . lix.
... hereafter be explained , having , I hope , illustrated some , which others have neglected or mif- taken , fometimes by fhort remarks , or marginal di- rections , rections , such as every editor has added at his ' PREFACE . lix.
الصفحة lx
... Some plays have more , and fome fewer judicial obfervations , not in proportion to their difference of merit , but because I gave this part of my design to chance and to caprice . The reader , I believe , is feldom pleased to find his ...
... Some plays have more , and fome fewer judicial obfervations , not in proportion to their difference of merit , but because I gave this part of my design to chance and to caprice . The reader , I believe , is feldom pleased to find his ...
الصفحة lxii
... Some of thefe alterations are only the ejection of a word for one that appeared to him more elegant or more intelligible . Thefe corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the hiftory of our language , and the true force of our ...
... Some of thefe alterations are only the ejection of a word for one that appeared to him more elegant or more intelligible . Thefe corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the hiftory of our language , and the true force of our ...
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