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 x
... dramas of a poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular regular or exorbitant , was a caufe of happiness or X א ! PREFACE .
... dramas of a poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular regular or exorbitant , was a caufe of happiness or X א ! PREFACE .
الصفحة xiii
... exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expreffing the courfe of the world , in which the ...
... exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expreffing the courfe of the world , in which the ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our authour's labours were exhibited had more fkill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and and perhaps wanted fome vifible and difcriminated events , as xxxiv PREFACE .
... , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our authour's labours were exhibited had more fkill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and and perhaps wanted fome vifible and difcriminated events , as xxxiv PREFACE .
الصفحة xl
... with idle fubtilty , were yet unattempted . The tales , with which the infancy of learning was fatisfied , exhibited only the fuperficial appearances of action , related the the events but omitted the caúfes , and were formed xi PREFACE .
... with idle fubtilty , were yet unattempted . The tales , with which the infancy of learning was fatisfied , exhibited only the fuperficial appearances of action , related the the events but omitted the caúfes , and were formed xi PREFACE .
الصفحة xliv
... exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from thinking , that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection ; when they were fuch as would fatisfy the audience , they ...
... exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclufion . I am indeed far from thinking , that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection ; when they were fuch as would fatisfy the audience , they ...
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