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 xxxviii
There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader , nor was our
language then so indigent of books , but ... disquisition had found English writers
; and poetry had been cultivated , not only 1 1 only with diligence , but success .
There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader , nor was our
language then so indigent of books , but ... disquisition had found English writers
; and poetry had been cultivated , not only 1 1 only with diligence , but success .
الصفحة xxxix
1 1 only with diligence , but success . This was a stock of knowledge sufficient for
a mind so capable of ap . propriating and improving it . Bnt the greater part of his
excellence was the product of his own genius . He found the English stage in a ...
1 1 only with diligence , but success . This was a stock of knowledge sufficient for
a mind so capable of ap . propriating and improving it . Bnt the greater part of his
excellence was the product of his own genius . He found the English stage in a ...
الصفحة lviii
A commentator has indeed great temprations to supply by turbulence what he
wants of dignity , to beat his little gold to a spacious surface , to work that to foam
which no art or diligence can exalt to spiric . The notes which I have borrowed or
...
A commentator has indeed great temprations to supply by turbulence what he
wants of dignity , to beat his little gold to a spacious surface , to work that to foam
which no art or diligence can exalt to spiric . The notes which I have borrowed or
...
الصفحة lxi
The part of criticism in which the whole fuccerfion of editors has laboured with the
greatest diligence , which has occasioned the most arrogant ostentation , and
excited the keenest acrimony , is the emendation of corrupted passages , to
which ...
The part of criticism in which the whole fuccerfion of editors has laboured with the
greatest diligence , which has occasioned the most arrogant ostentation , and
excited the keenest acrimony , is the emendation of corrupted passages , to
which ...
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... my power ; for what could be their care of cotons and commas , who corrupted
words and sentences . Whacever could be done by adjusting points is therefore
filently filently performed , in some plays with much diligence , Ixiv Ꮲ R E F A C E.
... my power ; for what could be their care of cotons and commas , who corrupted
words and sentences . Whacever could be done by adjusting points is therefore
filently filently performed , in some plays with much diligence , Ixiv Ꮲ R E F A C E.
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