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
... through artificial opacity . The great con- cention of criticifm is to find the faults of the mo- derns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an au- A 3 thour theur is yet living we eftimate his powers by his [v] ...
... through artificial opacity . The great con- cention of criticifm is to find the faults of the mo- derns , and the beauties of the ancients . While an au- A 3 thour theur is yet living we eftimate his powers by his [v] ...
الصفحة xix
... faults fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any other merit . I fhall fhew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently difcuffed than a ...
... faults fufficient to obfcure and overwhelm any other merit . I fhall fhew them in the proportion in which they appear to me , without envious malignity or fuperftitious veneration . No queftion can be more innocently difcuffed than a ...
الصفحة xx
... fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and ... faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not ...
... fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate ; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better , and ... faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to transfer to his imagined interpolators . We need not ...
الصفحة xlvi
... faults of all are indeed numerous and grofs , and have not only corrupted many paffages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obfcured by obfolete phrafeology , or by the writer's unfkilful ...
... faults of all are indeed numerous and grofs , and have not only corrupted many paffages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obfcured by obfolete phrafeology , or by the writer's unfkilful ...
الصفحة xlvii
... faults were com- mitted , with difplays of the abfurdities which they involved , with oftentatious expofitions of the new reading , and felf congratulations on the happiness of discovering it . Of Rowe , as of all the editors , I have ...
... faults were com- mitted , with difplays of the abfurdities which they involved , with oftentatious expofitions of the new reading , and felf congratulations on the happiness of discovering it . Of Rowe , as of all the editors , I have ...
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