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 xlvii
... emendations , if they were not made be- fore , which his fucceffors have received without ac- knowledgment , and which , if they had produced them , would have filled pages and pages with cen- fures of the ftupidity by which the faults ...
... emendations , if they were not made be- fore , which his fucceffors have received without ac- knowledgment , and which , if they had produced them , would have filled pages and pages with cen- fures of the ftupidity by which the faults ...
الصفحة lii
... emendations , whether invented or borrowed , into the page , without any notice of varying copies , he has appropriated the labour of his predeceffors , and made his own edition of little authority . His confidence indeed , both in ...
... emendations , whether invented or borrowed , into the page , without any notice of varying copies , he has appropriated the labour of his predeceffors , and made his own edition of little authority . His confidence indeed , both in ...
الصفحة liii
... emendations are likewife often happy and juft ; and his interpretation of obfcure paffages learned and fagacious . Of his notes , I have commonly rejected thofe , against which the general voice of the publick has exclaimed , or which ...
... emendations are likewife often happy and juft ; and his interpretation of obfcure paffages learned and fagacious . Of his notes , I have commonly rejected thofe , against which the general voice of the publick has exclaimed , or which ...
الصفحة lv
... emendation , it appears how falfely we all eftimate our own abilities , and the little which they have been able to perform might have taught them more candour to the endeavours of others . C 4 Before & Before Dr. Warburton's edition ...
... emendation , it appears how falfely we all eftimate our own abilities , and the little which they have been able to perform might have taught them more candour to the endeavours of others . C 4 Before & Before Dr. Warburton's edition ...
الصفحة lvi
... emendation , though his ardour is ill feconded by his fkill . Every cold empirick , when his heart is ex- panded by a fuccefsful experiment , fwells into a theo- rift , and the laborious collator at fome unlucky mo- ment frolicks in ...
... emendation , though his ardour is ill feconded by his fkill . Every cold empirick , when his heart is ex- panded by a fuccefsful experiment , fwells into a theo- rift , and the laborious collator at fome unlucky mo- ment frolicks in ...
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