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 xlviii
This was a work which Pope seems to have thought unworthy of his abilities ,
being not able to suppress his contempt of the dull duty of an editor . He
understood but half his undertaking . The duty of a collator is indeed dull , yet ,
like other ...
This was a work which Pope seems to have thought unworthy of his abilities ,
being not able to suppress his contempt of the dull duty of an editor . He
understood but half his undertaking . The duty of a collator is indeed dull , yet ,
like other ...
الصفحة xlix
Pope's edition fell below his own expectations , and he was so much offended ,
when he was found to have left any thing for others to do , that he past the latter
part of his life in a state of hoftility with verbal criticism . I have retained all his
notes ...
Pope's edition fell below his own expectations , and he was so much offended ,
when he was found to have left any thing for others to do , that he past the latter
part of his life in a state of hoftility with verbal criticism . I have retained all his
notes ...
الصفحة l
I have sometimes adopted his restoration of a comma , without inserting the
panegyrick in which he celebrated himself for his atchievement . The exuberant
excrescence of diction I have often lopped , his triumphant exultations over Pope
and ...
I have sometimes adopted his restoration of a comma , without inserting the
panegyrick in which he celebrated himself for his atchievement . The exuberant
excrescence of diction I have often lopped , his triumphant exultations over Pope
and ...
الصفحة li
Theobald , thus weak and ignorant , thus mean and faithless , thus petulant and
oftentatious , by the good luck of having Pope for his enemy , has escaped , and
escaped alone , with reputation , from this undertaking . So willingly does the ...
Theobald , thus weak and ignorant , thus mean and faithless , thus petulant and
oftentatious , by the good luck of having Pope for his enemy , has escaped , and
escaped alone , with reputation , from this undertaking . So willingly does the ...
الصفحة lxi
... which has occasioned the most arrogant ostentation , and excited the keenest
acrimony , is the emendation of corrupted passages , to which the publick
attention having been first drawn by the violence of the contention between Pope
and ...
... which has occasioned the most arrogant ostentation , and excited the keenest
acrimony , is the emendation of corrupted passages , to which the publick
attention having been first drawn by the violence of the contention between Pope
and ...
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