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
... commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from perfonal allufions , local cuftoms , or tem- porary opinions , have for many years been loft ; and every topick of merriment or motive of ...
... commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from perfonal allufions , local cuftoms , or tem- porary opinions , have for many years been loft ; and every topick of merriment or motive of ...
الصفحة ix
... 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 axioms and do- meftick wisdom . It was faid of Euripides , that every ...
... 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 axioms and do- meftick wisdom . It was faid of Euripides , that every ...
الصفحة xxi
... commonly fup- posed to have been a time of ftateliness , formality and reserve , yet perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There must , however , have been always fome modes of gayety preferable to others ...
... commonly fup- posed to have been a time of ftateliness , formality and reserve , yet perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There must , however , have been always fome modes of gayety preferable to others ...
الصفحة xxii
... commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of na- ture ; when he endeavoured , like other tragick wri- ters , to catch opportunities of amplification , and in- ftead of inquiring what the occafion demanded , to fhow how much ...
... commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of na- ture ; when he endeavoured , like other tragick wri- ters , to catch opportunities of amplification , and in- ftead of inquiring what the occafion demanded , to fhow how much ...
الصفحة xxvi
... commonly without refiftance or reply . It is time therefore to tell him , by the authority of Shake- Speare , that he affumes , as an unquestionable princi- ple , a pofition , which , while his breath is forming it into words , his ...
... commonly without refiftance or reply . It is time therefore to tell him , by the authority of Shake- Speare , that he affumes , as an unquestionable princi- ple , a pofition , which , while his breath is forming it into words , his ...
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