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 ix
... diligently they were frequented , the more was the student disqualified for the
world , because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other
place . The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare .
... diligently they were frequented , the more was the student disqualified for the
world , because he found nothing there which he should ever meet in any other
place . The same remark may be applied to every stage but that of Shakespeare .
الصفحة x
Upon every other stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good
and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover ,
a lady and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations ...
Upon every other stage the universal agent is love , by whose power all good
and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover ,
a lady and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations ...
الصفحة xxvii
There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extasy should count the clock ,
or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can
make the stage a field . The truth is , that the spectators are always in their fenses
...
There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extasy should count the clock ,
or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can
make the stage a field . The truth is , that the spectators are always in their fenses
...
الصفحة xxxv
... to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we fill find that on
our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is
very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , passionate or sublime . Voltaire
...
... to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the nation , we fill find that on
our stage something must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is
very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , passionate or sublime . Voltaire
...
الصفحة xxxix
He found the English stage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no eslays either in
tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what
degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither character nor ...
He found the English stage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no eslays either in
tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what
degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither character nor ...
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