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
... excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or thofe , who , being forced by difappointment upon ...
... excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by thofe , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or thofe , who , being forced by difappointment upon ...
الصفحة vi
... excellence is not abfolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonftra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obfer- vation and experience , no other teft can be applied than ...
... excellence is not abfolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonftra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obfer- vation and experience , no other teft can be applied than ...
الصفحة xi
... excellence or depravity , as the writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived ...
... excellence or depravity , as the writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived ...
الصفحة xxiii
... excellence , than when he seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the croffes of love . He is not long foft and pathe- tick without ...
... excellence , than when he seems fully refolved to fink them in dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatnefs , the danger of innocence , or the croffes of love . He is not long foft and pathe- tick without ...
الصفحة xxiv
... excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the cenfure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I fhall , with due reverence to that learning which I muft oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him ...
... excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the cenfure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I fhall , with due reverence to that learning which I muft oppose , adventure to try how I can defend him ...
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