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 vii
1 > intelligence , but by remarking , that pation after nafion , and century after
century , has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents , new name
his characters , and paraphrase his sentiments . The reverence due to writings
that ...
1 > intelligence , but by remarking , that pation after nafion , and century after
century , has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents , new name
his characters , and paraphrase his sentiments . The reverence due to writings
that ...
الصفحة xi
Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved
, yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more diflinct from each other . I
will not say with Pope , that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker
...
Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved
, yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more diflinct from each other . I
will not say with Pope , that every speech may be assigned to the proper speaker
...
الصفحة xix
Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet not
wholly without ruggedness or difficulty ; as a country may be eminently fruitful ,
though it has spots unfit for cultivation : His characters are praised as nacural ,
though ...
Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet not
wholly without ruggedness or difficulty ; as a country may be eminently fruitful ,
though it has spots unfit for cultivation : His characters are praised as nacural ,
though ...
الصفحة xxi
In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful , when he engages his
characters in reciprocations of smartness and contest of sarcasm ; their jests are
commonly gross , and their pleasantry licentious ; neither his gentlemen nor his
ladies ...
In his comick scenes he is seldom very successful , when he engages his
characters in reciprocations of smartness and contest of sarcasm ; their jests are
commonly gross , and their pleasantry licentious ; neither his gentlemen nor his
ladies ...
الصفحة xl
Other writers borrow their characters from preceding writers , and diversify them
only by the accidental appendages of prelent manners ' ; the dress is a little
varied , but the body is the fame . Our authour had both matter and form to
provide ; for ...
Other writers borrow their characters from preceding writers , and diversify them
only by the accidental appendages of prelent manners ' ; the dress is a little
varied , but the body is the fame . Our authour had both matter and form to
provide ; for ...
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