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 xv
An action which ended happily to be principal persons , however serious or
distressful through its intermediate incidents , in their opinion constituted a
comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays wstę
written , which ...
An action which ended happily to be principal persons , however serious or
distressful through its intermediate incidents , in their opinion constituted a
comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays wstę
written , which ...
الصفحة xxiv
His histories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are not subject to any of
their laws ; nothing more is necessary to all the praise which they expect , than
that the changes of action be so prepared as to be understood , that the incidents
be ...
His histories , being neither tragedies nor comedies , are not subject to any of
their laws ; nothing more is necessary to all the praise which they expect , than
that the changes of action be so prepared as to be understood , that the incidents
be ...
الصفحة xxvii
The lines relate to some action , and an action must be in some place ; but the
different actions that compleat a story may be in places very remote from each
other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens ,
and ...
The lines relate to some action , and an action must be in some place ; but the
different actions that compleat a story may be in places very remote from each
other ; and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens ,
and ...
الصفحة xxviii
The drama exhibits fuccessive imitations of successive actions , and why may not
the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first ; if it
be so connected with it , that nothing but time can be supposed to inter , Time is ...
The drama exhibits fuccessive imitations of successive actions , and why may not
the second imitation represent an action that happened years after the first ; if it
be so connected with it , that nothing but time can be supposed to inter , Time is ...
الصفحة xl
Speculation had not yet attempted to analyse the inind , to trace the passions to
their sources , to unfold the se· Ininal principles of vice and virtue , or found the
depths of the heart for the motives of action . All those enquiries , which from that
...
Speculation had not yet attempted to analyse the inind , to trace the passions to
their sources , to unfold the se· Ininal principles of vice and virtue , or found the
depths of the heart for the motives of action . All those enquiries , which from that
...
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