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
... characters , and paraphrafe his fentiments . The reverence due to writings that have long fub- fifted arifes therefore not from any credulous confi- dence in the fuperior wifdom of paft ages , or gloomy perfuafion of the degeneracy of ...
... characters , and paraphrafe his fentiments . The reverence due to writings that have long fub- fifted arifes therefore not from any credulous confi- dence in the fuperior wifdom of paft ages , or gloomy perfuafion of the degeneracy of ...
الصفحة viii
... characters are not modified by the coftoms of particular places , unpractifed by the reft of the world ; by the peculiarities of ftudies or profeffions , which can operate but upon fmall numbers ; or by the accidents of tranfient ...
... characters are not modified by the coftoms of particular places , unpractifed by the reft of the world ; by the peculiarities of ftudies or profeffions , which can operate but upon fmall numbers ; or by the accidents of tranfient ...
الصفحة ix
... character is too often an individual ; in thofe 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 ...
... character is too often an individual ; in thofe 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 ...
الصفحة x
... characters as were never feen , conver- fing in a language which was never heard , upon to- picks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this authour is oftea fo evidently determined by the incident ...
... characters as were never feen , conver- fing in a language which was never heard , upon to- picks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this authour is oftea fo evidently determined by the incident ...
الصفحة xi
... 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- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from ...
... 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- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from ...
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