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
... dramas of a poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular regular or exorbitant , was a caufe of happiness or X א ! PREFACE .
... dramas of a poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular regular or exorbitant , was a caufe of happiness or X א ! PREFACE .
الصفحة xii
... drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raife up before him , may here be cured of his delirious extafies , by reading human fentiments in human language ; by ...
... drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in following the phantoms which other writers raife up before him , may here be cured of his delirious extafies , by reading human fentiments in human language ; by ...
الصفحة xiv
... drama may con- vey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition , and approaches nearer than either to the appearance of life , by fhewing how great machi- nations ...
... drama may con- vey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition , and approaches nearer than either to the appearance of life , by fhewing how great machi- nations ...
الصفحة xvi
... drama , Shakespeare's mode of compofition is the fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs ...
... drama , Shakespeare's mode of compofition is the fame ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is foftened at one time , and exhilarated at another . But whatever be his purpose , whether to gladden or deprefs ...
الصفحة xxv
... drama credible . The criticks hold it impoffible , that an action of months or years can be poffibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the fpectator can fup- pose himself to fit in the theatre , while ambaffadors go and return ...
... drama credible . The criticks hold it impoffible , that an action of months or years can be poffibly believed to pass in three hours ; or that the fpectator can fup- pose himself to fit in the theatre , while ambaffadors go and return ...
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