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 xiv
... comedy , compofitions intended to promote different ends by contrary means , and confidered as fo little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a fingle writer who attempted both . 1 Shakespeare has united the ...
... comedy , compofitions intended to promote different ends by contrary means , and confidered as fo little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a fingle writer who attempted both . 1 Shakespeare has united the ...
الصفحة xv
... comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays were written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe , were tragedies to - day and come- dies to - morrow , Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general ...
... comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays were written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe , were tragedies to - day and come- dies to - morrow , Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general ...
الصفحة xvii
... comedy he feems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always fome- thing wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expec- tation or defire . His comedy pleafes by ...
... comedy he feems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always fome- thing wanting , but his comedy often furpaffes expec- tation or defire . His comedy pleafes by ...
الصفحة xxix
... comedy is often more powerful on the theatre , than in the page ; imperial tragedy is always lefs . The humour of Petruchio may be heightened by grimace ; but what voice or what gefture can hope to add dignity or force to the foli ...
... comedy is often more powerful on the theatre , than in the page ; imperial tragedy is always lefs . The humour of Petruchio may be heightened by grimace ; but what voice or what gefture can hope to add dignity or force to the foli ...
الصفحة xxxvii
... Comedy of Errors is confeffedly taken from the Menæchmi of Plautus ; from the only play of Plautus which was then in English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have co- pied more ; but that those which ...
... Comedy of Errors is confeffedly taken from the Menæchmi of Plautus ; from the only play of Plautus which was then in English . What can be more pro- bable , than that he who copied that , would have co- pied more ; but that those which ...
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