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 xx
... gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions , and opinions of another , at the expence not only of likelihood , but of poffi bility . Thefe faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to ...
... gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions , and opinions of another , at the expence not only of likelihood , but of poffi bility . Thefe faults Pope has endeavoured , with more zeal than judgment , to ...
الصفحة xxix
... give us fhade , or the fountains coolness ; but we confider , how we should be pleafed with fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes ...
... give us fhade , or the fountains coolness ; but we confider , how we should be pleafed with fuch fountains playing befide us , and fuch woods waving over us . We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes ...
الصفحة xxxi
... give their approbation to the judgment of Shakespeare , will eafily , if they confider the condition of his life , make fome allowance for his ignorance . Every man's performances , to be rightly eftima- ted , must be compared with the ...
... give their approbation to the judgment of Shakespeare , will eafily , if they confider the condition of his life , make fome allowance for his ignorance . Every man's performances , to be rightly eftima- ted , must be compared with the ...
الصفحة xxxix
... gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected by ftudy and experience , can only affift in combining or apply- ing them . Shakespeare , however favoured by nature , could impart only what he had learned ; and as he muft ...
... gives no man know- ledge , and when images are collected by ftudy and experience , can only affift in combining or apply- ing them . Shakespeare , however favoured by nature , could impart only what he had learned ; and as he muft ...
الصفحة xlii
... gives the image which he receives , not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignorant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are compleat . Perhaps it would not be eafy to find ...
... gives the image which he receives , not weakened or distorted by the intervention of any other mind ; the ignorant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are compleat . Perhaps it would not be eafy to find ...
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