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 vi
... fame kind . Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and col- lective ability of ...
... fame kind . Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and col- lective ability of ...
الصفحة vii
... fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from perfonal allufions , local cuftoms , or tem- porary opinions ...
... fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit . Whatever advantages he might once derive from perfonal allufions , local cuftoms , or tem- porary opinions ...
الصفحة ix
... world , be- caufe he found nothing there which he fhould ever meet in any other place . The fame remark may be applied to every ftage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , theatre , when it is under any other direction , PREFACE ix.
... world , be- caufe he found nothing there which he fhould ever meet in any other place . The fame remark may be applied to every ftage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , theatre , when it is under any other direction , PREFACE ix.
الصفحة xi
... fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in ...
... fame occafion : Even where the agency is fupernatural the dialogue is level with life . Other writers difguife the most natural paffions and most frequent incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in ...
الصفحة xiii
... fame time , the reveller is hafting to his wine , and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one is fometimes , defeated by the frolick of ano- ther ; and many mifchiefs and many benefits are done and hindered ...
... fame time , the reveller is hafting to his wine , and the mourner burying his friend ; in which the malignity of one is fometimes , defeated by the frolick of ano- ther ; and many mifchiefs and many benefits are done and hindered ...
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