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 x
... diligent felec- tion out of common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whofe power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a ...
... diligent felec- tion out of common converfation , and common oc- currences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whofe power all good and evil is distributed , and every action quickened or retarded . To bring a ...
الصفحة xxxii
... diligence , the Italian and Spanish poets . But literature was yet confined to profeffed fcholars , or to men and women of high rank . The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write , was an ac- complishment still ...
... diligence , the Italian and Spanish poets . But literature was yet confined to profeffed fcholars , or to men and women of high rank . The publick was grofs and dark ; and to be able to read and write , was an ac- complishment still ...
الصفحة xxxviii
... diligent reader , nor was our language then fo indi- gent of books , but that he might very liberally indulge his curiofity without excurfion into foreign literature . Many of the ... diligence , but fuccefs . This was a xxxviii PREFACE .
... diligent reader , nor was our language then fo indi- gent of books , but that he might very liberally indulge his curiofity without excurfion into foreign literature . Many of the ... diligence , but fuccefs . This was a xxxviii PREFACE .
الصفحة xxxix
... diligence procures , or opportunity fupplies . Nature gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected by ftudy and experience , can only affift in combining or apply- ing them . Shakespeare , however favoured by nature , could ...
... diligence procures , or opportunity fupplies . Nature gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected by ftudy and experience , can only affift in combining or apply- ing them . Shakespeare , however favoured by nature , could ...
الصفحة xlvi
... diligence . Thofe who faw that they must employ conjecture to a certain degree , were willing to indulge it a little further . Had the authour published his own works , we should have fat quietly down to disentangle his intricacies ...
... diligence . Thofe who faw that they must employ conjecture to a certain degree , were willing to indulge it a little further . Had the authour published his own works , we should have fat quietly down to disentangle his intricacies ...
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