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
... genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works of the fame kind . Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and ...
... genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works of the fame kind . Demonstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and ...
الصفحة xxx
... genius of Shakespeare , and fuch cenfures are fuitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire : Non ufque adeo permifcuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , fi voce Metelli Serventur leges , malint a Cæfare tolli . 1 Yet when I ...
... genius of Shakespeare , and fuch cenfures are fuitable to the minute and slender criticism of Voltaire : Non ufque adeo permifcuit imis Longus fumma dies , ut non , fi voce Metelli Serventur leges , malint a Cæfare tolli . 1 Yet when I ...
الصفحة xxxv
... genius . Cato affords a fplendid exhibition of artificial and fictitious manners , and delivers just and noble fentiments , in diction eafy , elevated and harmonious , but its hopes and fears communicate no vibration to the heart ; the ...
... genius . Cato affords a fplendid exhibition of artificial and fictitious manners , and delivers just and noble fentiments , in diction eafy , elevated and harmonious , but its hopes and fears communicate no vibration to the heart ; the ...
الصفحة xxxix
... genius . He found the English ftage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no effays either in tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be difcovered to what degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither ...
... genius . He found the English ftage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no effays either in tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be difcovered to what degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither ...
الصفحة xli
... genius and learning have been performed in ftates of life , that appear very little favourable to thought or to enquiry ; fo many , that he who confiders them is in- clined to think that he fees enterprife and perfeverance predominating ...
... genius and learning have been performed in ftates of life , that appear very little favourable to thought or to enquiry ; fo many , that he who confiders them is in- clined to think that he fees enterprife and perfeverance predominating ...
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