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 v
... continued by thofe , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or thofe , who , being forced by difappointment upon confolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pofterity what the ...
... continued by thofe , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or thofe , who , being forced by difappointment upon confolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pofterity what the ...
الصفحة viii
... continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what peculiarities of ex- cellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please ...
... continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what peculiarities of ex- cellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please ...
الصفحة xv
... 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 dignity or elevation than 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 dignity or elevation than comedy ...
الصفحة xvi
... continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all thefe denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of compofition is the fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is ...
... continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all thefe denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of compofition is the fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is ...
الصفحة lxi
... continued by the perfecution , which , with a kind of confpiracy , has been fince raised against all the publishers of Shakespeare . That many paffages have paffed in a ftate of de- pravation through all the editions is indubitably ...
... continued by the perfecution , which , with a kind of confpiracy , has been fince raised against all the publishers of Shakespeare . That many paffages have paffed in a ftate of de- pravation through all the editions is indubitably ...
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