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 v
[ v ] P R E F A C E. TH THAT praises are without reason lavished on excellence
are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who ,
being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of ...
[ v ] P R E F A C E. TH THAT praises are without reason lavished on excellence
are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who ,
being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of ...
الصفحة vi
To works , however , of which the excellence is not abfolute and definite , but
gradual and comparative ; to works not raised upon principles demonstrative and
scientifick , but appealing wholly to observation and experience , no other test
can ...
To works , however , of which the excellence is not abfolute and definite , but
gradual and comparative ; to works not raised upon principles demonstrative and
scientifick , but appealing wholly to observation and experience , no other test
can ...
الصفحة xxxi
He that , without diminution of any other excellence , shall preserve all the unities
unbroken , deferves the like applause with the architect , who shall difplay all the
orders of architecture in a citadel , without any deduction from its strength ; but ...
He that , without diminution of any other excellence , shall preserve all the unities
unbroken , deferves the like applause with the architect , who shall difplay all the
orders of architecture in a citadel , without any deduction from its strength ; but ...
الصفحة xl
There is a vigilance of observation and accuracy of distinction which books and
precepts cannot confer ; from this almost all original and native excellence
proceeds . Shakijpeare must have looked upon mankind with perspicacity , in the
...
There is a vigilance of observation and accuracy of distinction which books and
precepts cannot confer ; from this almost all original and native excellence
proceeds . Shakijpeare must have looked upon mankind with perspicacity , in the
...
الصفحة xliv
He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence , but perhaps not one
play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would
be heard to the conclufion . P am indeed far from thinking , that his works were ...
He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence , but perhaps not one
play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would
be heard to the conclufion . P am indeed far from thinking , that his works were ...
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able action ancient appear attention authour becauſe believe cenſure characters comedy common commonly conjecture conſidered continued copies corrupted criticiſm criticks deſign dialogue diligence diſcovered diſtinction drama eaſily eaſy edition editor elegance emendations endeavoured Engliſh excellence exhibited fame faults firſt follows force give given greater himſelf hiſtory hope human ignorance imagination imitation incidents inſtruct juſt knowledge known labour language laſt learning meaning mind modes moſt muſt nature neceſſary never notes obſcure obſerved opinion original particular paſſages performance perhaps Plautus plays pleaſe pleaſure poet Pope praiſe preſent preſerved principles produced publiſhed reader reaſon received repreſented reſt ſame ſay ſcenes ſeems ſentiments Shakeſpeare ſhould ſome ſometimes ſtage ſtate ſtudy ſuch ſuffered ſufficient ſuppoſe theſe thing thoſe thought tion tragedy truth unities uſe whole writer written