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 xxv
... discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor . The neceffity of observing the unities of time and place arifes from the fuppofed neceffity of making the drama credible . The criticks hold it ...
... discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor . The neceffity of observing the unities of time and place arifes from the fuppofed neceffity of making the drama credible . The criticks hold it ...
الصفحة xxxvi
... discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought , as will happen to xxxvi PREFACE .
... discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought , as will happen to xxxvi PREFACE .
الصفحة xlvii
... discovering it . Of Rowe , as of all the editors , I have preserved the preface , and have likewife retained the authour's life , though not written with much elegance or fpirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and ...
... discovering it . Of Rowe , as of all the editors , I have preserved the preface , and have likewife retained the authour's life , though not written with much elegance or fpirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and ...
الصفحة lxvi
... discovery , and a fober wish for the advancement and profperity of genuine criticifm . All this may be done , and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety . But I have always fufpected that the reading is right , which requires many ...
... discovery , and a fober wish for the advancement and profperity of genuine criticifm . All this may be done , and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety . But I have always fufpected that the reading is right , which requires many ...
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