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 xxiii
... follows it at all adventures , it is fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire . It has fome malignant power over his mind , and its fafcinations are irrefiftible . Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his ...
... follows it at all adventures , it is fure to lead him out of his way , and fure to engulf him in the mire . It has fome malignant power over his mind , and its fafcinations are irrefiftible . Whatever be the dignity or profundity of his ...
الصفحة xxv
... follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play ...
... follows by eafy confequence . There are perhaps fome incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play ...
الصفحة xxix
... follows that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pafs , and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader of a narrative , before whom may pafs in an hour ...
... follows that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pafs , and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader of a narrative , before whom may pafs in an hour ...
الصفحة xxxvii
... follow , we read a tranflation of , I prae , fequar . I have been told , that when Ca- liban , after a pleafing dream , fays , I cry'd to fleep again , the authour imitates Anacreon , who had , like every other man , the fame wifh on ...
... follow , we read a tranflation of , I prae , fequar . I have been told , that when Ca- liban , after a pleafing dream , fays , I cry'd to fleep again , the authour imitates Anacreon , who had , like every other man , the fame wifh on ...
الصفحة xlii
... follow- ing generations of wit , after a fhort celebrity , fink into oblivion . The firit , whoever they be , must take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore juft , their ...
... follow- ing generations of wit , after a fhort celebrity , fink into oblivion . The firit , whoever they be , must take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore juft , their ...
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