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 ix
... dialogue ; and he that tries to recom- mend him by felect quotations , will fucceed like the pedant in Hierocles , who , when he offered his houfe to fale , carried a brick in his pocket as a fpecimen . It will not eafily be imagined ...
... dialogue ; and he that tries to recom- mend him by felect quotations , will fucceed like the pedant in Hierocles , who , when he offered his houfe to fale , carried a brick in his pocket as a fpecimen . It will not eafily be imagined ...
الصفحة x
... dialogue of this authour is oftea fo evidently determined by the incident which pro- duces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and fim- plicity , that it seems fcarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by ...
... dialogue of this authour is oftea fo evidently determined by the incident which pro- duces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and fim- plicity , that it seems fcarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by ...
الصفحة xi
... dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and ...
... dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and ...
الصفحة xvi
... dialogue , he never fails to attain his purpose ; as he commands us , we laugh or mourn , or fit filent with quiet expectation , in tranquillity without indif- ference . When Shakespeare's plan is understood , moft of the criticisms of ...
... dialogue , he never fails to attain his purpose ; as he commands us , we laugh or mourn , or fit filent with quiet expectation , in tranquillity without indif- ference . When Shakespeare's plan is understood , moft of the criticisms of ...
الصفحة xviii
... dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deserves to be ftudied as one of the original xviii PREFACE .
... dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deserves to be ftudied as one of the original xviii PREFACE .
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