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
Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear
from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by
their proportion to the general and collective ability of man , as it is discovered in
...
Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear
from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by
their proportion to the general and collective ability of man , as it is discovered in
...
الصفحة xxxix
Bnt the greater part of his excellence was the product of his own genius . He
found the English stage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no eslays either in
tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what
degree of ...
Bnt the greater part of his excellence was the product of his own genius . He
found the English stage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no eslays either in
tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what
degree of ...
الصفحة xliii
To him we must ascribe the praise , unless Spenser may divide it with him , of
having first discovered to how much smoothness and harmony the English
language could be softened . He has speeches , perhaps fo.metimes scenes ,
which ...
To him we must ascribe the praise , unless Spenser may divide it with him , of
having first discovered to how much smoothness and harmony the English
language could be softened . He has speeches , perhaps fo.metimes scenes ,
which ...
الصفحة li
He had , what is the first requisice to emendatory criticism , that intuition by which
the poet's intention is immediately discovered , and that dexterity of intellect
which dispatches its work by the easiest means . He had undoubtedly read much
...
He had , what is the first requisice to emendatory criticism , that intuition by which
the poet's intention is immediately discovered , and that dexterity of intellect
which dispatches its work by the easiest means . He had undoubtedly read much
...
الصفحة lv
They have both shewn acuteness fufficient in the discovery of faules , and have
both advanced some probable interpretations of obscure passages ; but when
they aspire to conjecture and emendation , it appears how falsely we all estimate
...
They have both shewn acuteness fufficient in the discovery of faules , and have
both advanced some probable interpretations of obscure passages ; but when
they aspire to conjecture and emendation , it appears how falsely we all estimate
...
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