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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Samuel Johnson. Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare Tizibits Observations on Thakespeare . Farmer's Epay on the learning of Thakespeare . Shakespeare's Garbaid . Akenfides Pleasures of the Imagination Michipula . Lat . and English . I am ...
Samuel Johnson. Johnson's Preface to Shakespeare Tizibits Observations on Thakespeare . Farmer's Epay on the learning of Thakespeare . Shakespeare's Garbaid . Akenfides Pleasures of the Imagination Michipula . Lat . and English . I am ...
الصفحة viii
... Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but Particular juft reprefentations of general nature . manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly ...
... Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long , but Particular juft reprefentations of general nature . manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly ...
الصفحة ix
... Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills . the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and do- meftick wisdom . It was faid of ...
... Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills . the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and do- meftick wisdom . It was faid of ...
الصفحة xi
... Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with ...
... Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with ...
الصفحة xii
... Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raife up before him , may here be cured of his delirious extafies , by reading human fentiments ...
... Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raife up before him , may here be cured of his delirious extafies , by reading human fentiments ...
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