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 xi
... attention by hy- perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex ...
... attention by hy- perbolical or aggravated characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex ...
الصفحة xv
... attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be fome- times interrupted by unwelcome levity , yet let it be confidered likewife , that melancholy is often not pleasing , and that the ...
... attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be fome- times interrupted by unwelcome levity , yet let it be confidered likewife , that melancholy is often not pleasing , and that the ...
الصفحة xxii
... is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial fentiments and vulgar vulgar ideas difappoint the attention , to which they are xxii PREFACE .
... is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial fentiments and vulgar vulgar ideas difappoint the attention , to which they are xxii PREFACE .
الصفحة xxiii
Samuel Johnson. vulgar ideas difappoint the attention , to which they are recommended by fonorous epithets and fwelling figures . But the admirers of this great poet have never leis reafon to indulge their hopes of fupreme excellence ...
Samuel Johnson. vulgar ideas difappoint the attention , to which they are recommended by fonorous epithets and fwelling figures . But the admirers of this great poet have never leis reafon to indulge their hopes of fupreme excellence ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... attention of a rude people was more eafily caught than by fentiment or argumentation ; and fuch is the power of the marvellous even over thofe who defpife it , that every man finds his mind more strongly seized by the tragedies of ...
... attention of a rude people was more eafily caught than by fentiment or argumentation ; and fuch is the power of the marvellous even over thofe who defpife it , that every man finds his mind more strongly seized by the tragedies of ...
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