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 vi
... The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to tranfcend the common limits of human intelligence , 1 intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after vi . PREFACE .
... The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to tranfcend the common limits of human intelligence , 1 intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after vi . PREFACE .
الصفحة viii
... common fatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleasures of fudden wonder are foon exhausted , and the mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the ...
... common fatiety of life fends us all in queft ; but the pleasures of fudden wonder are foon exhausted , and the mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the ...
الصفحة ix
Samuel Johnson. geny of common humanity , fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and fpeak by the influence of thofe ge- neral paffions and principles by which all minds are agitated ...
Samuel Johnson. geny of common humanity , fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and fpeak by the influence of thofe ge- neral paffions and principles by which all minds are agitated ...
الصفحة x
... common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whofe power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady and a rival into ...
... common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whofe power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a lover , a lady and a rival into ...
الصفحة xv
... it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs . Hiftory Hiftory was a feries of actions , with no other PREFACE . xv.
... it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs . Hiftory Hiftory was a feries of actions , with no other PREFACE . xv.
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