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 xx
... . Thefe faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not wonder to find Helor quoting quoting Ariftotle , when we fee the loves of Thefeus XX PREFACE .
... . Thefe faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not wonder to find Helor quoting quoting Ariftotle , when we fee the loves of Thefeus XX PREFACE .
الصفحة xxii
... endeavoured to recommend it by dignity and fplendour . His declamations or fet fpeeches are commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of na- ture ; when he endeavoured , like other tragick wri- ters , to catch opportunities ...
... endeavoured to recommend it by dignity and fplendour . His declamations or fet fpeeches are commonly cold and weak , for his power was the power of na- ture ; when he endeavoured , like other tragick wri- ters , to catch opportunities ...
الصفحة lviii
... think impoffible to be mistaken , and omit many for which the ignorant will want his help . These are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured , endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuper- fluously Iviii PREFACE .
... think impoffible to be mistaken , and omit many for which the ignorant will want his help . These are cenfures merely relative , and must be quietly endured , endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuper- fluously Iviii PREFACE .
الصفحة lix
Samuel Johnson. endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuper- fluously copious , nor fcrupulously referved , and hope that I have made my authour's meaning acceffible to many who before were frighted from perufing him , and ...
Samuel Johnson. endured . I have endeavoured to be neither fuper- fluously copious , nor fcrupulously referved , and hope that I have made my authour's meaning acceffible to many who before were frighted from perufing him , and ...
الصفحة lxiii
... endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to fenfe , with leaft violence . But my first labour is , always to turn the old text on every fide , and try if there be any interftice , through which light can find its way ; nor would ...
... endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to fenfe , with leaft violence . But my first labour is , always to turn the old text on every fide , and try if there be any interftice , through which light can find its way ; nor would ...
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