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 i
... Akenfides Pleasures of the Imagination Michipula . Lat . and English . I am cated Alma Prion's Alne trgaslated by Martin . Murphy's Upholsterer , a farce . Comes a masques , The Soviel brow , a farce . MOTHE 心" Front Cover.
... Akenfides Pleasures of the Imagination Michipula . Lat . and English . I am cated Alma Prion's Alne trgaslated by Martin . Murphy's Upholsterer , a farce . Comes a masques , The Soviel brow , a farce . MOTHE 心" Front Cover.
الصفحة xxxii
... English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet ftruggling to emerge from barbarity . The phi- lology of Italy had been tranfplanted hither in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; and the learned languages : had been fuccessfully ...
... English nation , in the time of Shakespeare , was yet ftruggling to emerge from barbarity . The phi- lology of Italy had been tranfplanted hither in the reign of Henry the Eighth ; and the learned languages : had been fuccessfully ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... English profe , which the cri- ticks have now to feek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English hiftories he took from English chro- nicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by verfions , they ...
... English profe , which the cri- ticks have now to feek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English hiftories he took from English chro- nicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by verfions , they ...
الصفحة xxxvii
... English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have co- pied more ; but that those which were not translated were inacceffible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have ...
... English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have co- pied more ; but that those which were not translated were inacceffible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have ...
الصفحة xxxviii
... English , and chofe for his fables only fuch tales as he found tranflated . That much knowledge is fcattered over his works is very juftly obferved by Pope , but it is often fuch knowledge as books did not fupply . He that will ...
... English , and chofe for his fables only fuch tales as he found tranflated . That much knowledge is fcattered over his works is very juftly obferved by Pope , but it is often fuch knowledge as books did not fupply . He that will ...
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