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 x
... action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations , perplex them with op- pofitions of intereft , and harrafs them with violence of defires inconfiftent ...
... action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady and a rival into the fable ; to entangle them in contradictory obligations , perplex them with op- pofitions of intereft , and harrafs them with violence of defires inconfiftent ...
الصفحة xv
... action which ended happily to the principal perfons , however serious or diftrefsful through its in- termediate ... actions , with no other PREFACE . xv.
... action which ended happily to the principal perfons , however serious or diftrefsful through its in- termediate ... actions , with no other PREFACE . xv.
الصفحة xvi
Samuel Johnson. Hiftory was a feries of actions , with no other than chronological fucceffion , independent of each ... action in the tragedy of Antony and Cleo- patra , than in the hiftory of Richard the Second . But a hiftory might be ...
Samuel Johnson. Hiftory was a feries of actions , with no other than chronological fucceffion , independent of each ... action in the tragedy of Antony and Cleo- patra , than in the hiftory of Richard the Second . But a hiftory might be ...
الصفحة xvii
... action . His tragedy feems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . The force of his comick fcenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half , in manners or in words . As his perfonages act upon ...
... action . His tragedy feems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . The force of his comick fcenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by a century and a half , in manners or in words . As his perfonages act upon ...
الصفحة xix
... actions improbable ; as the earth upon the whole is fpherical , though its furface is varied with protuberances and cavities . Shakespeare with his excellencies has likewife fauits , and faults fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any ...
... actions improbable ; as the earth upon the whole is fpherical , though its furface is varied with protuberances and cavities . Shakespeare with his excellencies has likewife fauits , and faults fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any ...
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