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
... first building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was round or fquare , but whether it was fpa- cious or lofty muft have been referred to time . The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be ...
... first building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was round or fquare , but whether it was fpa- cious or lofty muft have been referred to time . The Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be ...
الصفحة xiii
... first stated , and then examined . Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous or cri- tical fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of ...
... first stated , and then examined . Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous or cri- tical fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of ...
الصفحة xix
... first defect is that to which may be imputed moft of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpofe . From ...
... first defect is that to which may be imputed moft of the evil in books or in men . He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is fo much more careful to please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpofe . From ...
الصفحة xxv
... of reality . From the narrow limitation of time neceffarily arifes the contraction of place . The fpectator , who knows that he saw the first act at Alexandria , cannot fuppofe " fuppofe that he fees the next at Rome , PREFACE . XXV.
... of reality . From the narrow limitation of time neceffarily arifes the contraction of place . The fpectator , who knows that he saw the first act at Alexandria , cannot fuppofe " fuppofe that he fees the next at Rome , PREFACE . XXV.
الصفحة xxvi
... first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , fuppofes , that when the play opens the fpectator really imagines himself at Alexandria , and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt , and that he lives in the ...
... first hour at Alexandria , and the next at Rome , fuppofes , that when the play opens the fpectator really imagines himself at Alexandria , and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt , and that he lives in the ...
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