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 xi
... not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents will not happen , but if it were poffible , poffible , its effects would be probably fuch as he PREFACE .
... not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents will not happen , but if it were poffible , poffible , its effects would be probably fuch as he PREFACE .
الصفحة xiv
... are interrupted in their progreffion , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at laft the power power to move , which conftitutes the perfection of dramatick xjv PREFACE .
... are interrupted in their progreffion , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at laft the power power to move , which conftitutes the perfection of dramatick xjv PREFACE .
الصفحة xxiv
... events , and Shake- Speare is the poet , of nature : But his plan has com- monly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , 3 and and an end ; one event is concatenated with another xxiv PREFACE :
... events , and Shake- Speare is the poet , of nature : But his plan has com- monly what Aristotle requires , a beginning , a middle , 3 and and an end ; one event is concatenated with another xxiv PREFACE :
الصفحة xxv
Samuel Johnson. and an end ; one event is concatenated with another , and the conclufion follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time ...
Samuel Johnson. and an end ; one event is concatenated with another , and the conclufion follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time ...
الصفحة xxvii
... made in Rome , the event of the war may , with- out abfurdity , be reprefented , in the catastrophe , as happening in Pontus ; we know that there is neither war , t war , nor preparation for war ; we know PREFACE . xxvii.
... made in Rome , the event of the war may , with- out abfurdity , be reprefented , in the catastrophe , as happening in Pontus ; we know that there is neither war , t war , nor preparation for war ; we know PREFACE . xxvii.
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