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 xviii
... elegance . The polite are always catching modifh innovations , and the learned depart from efta- blished forms of speech , in hope of finding or making . better ; thofe who wish for diftinction forfake the vulgar , when the vulgar is ...
... elegance . The polite are always catching modifh innovations , and the learned depart from efta- blished forms of speech , in hope of finding or making . better ; thofe who wish for diftinction forfake the vulgar , when the vulgar is ...
الصفحة xxxii
... elegance with learning , read , with great 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 ...
... elegance with learning , read , with great 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 ...
الصفحة xlvii
... elegance or fpirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and therefore deferves to pafs through all fucceeding pub- lications . The nation had been for many years content enough with Mr. Rowe's performance , when Mr. Pope made ...
... elegance or fpirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and therefore deferves to pafs through all fucceeding pub- lications . The nation had been for many years content enough with Mr. Rowe's performance , when Mr. Pope made ...
الصفحة xlix
... elegance of compofition and juftnefs of re- mark , and containing a general criticism on his au- thour , fo extenfive that little can be added , and so exact , that little can be difputed , every editor has an intereft to fupprefs , but ...
... elegance of compofition and juftnefs of re- mark , and containing a general criticism on his au- thour , fo extenfive that little can be added , and so exact , that little can be difputed , every editor has an intereft to fupprefs , but ...
الصفحة lxiii
... elegance , per- fpicuity , or mere improvement of the fenfe . For though much credit is not due to the fidelity , nor any to the judgement of the first publishers , yet they who had the copy before their eyes were more likely to read it ...
... elegance , per- fpicuity , or mere improvement of the fenfe . For though much credit is not due to the fidelity , nor any to the judgement of the first publishers , yet they who had the copy before their eyes were more likely to read it ...
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