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 xxv
... given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor . The neceffity of observing the unities of time and place arifes from the fuppofed neceffity of making the drama credible . The criticks hold it impoffible , that an action ...
... given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor . The neceffity of observing the unities of time and place arifes from the fuppofed neceffity of making the drama credible . The criticks hold it impoffible , that an action ...
الصفحة xlii
... given to his country . Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact furveyor of the inanimate world ; his defcriptions have always fome peculiarities , gathered by contemplating things as they really exist . It ...
... given to his country . Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact furveyor of the inanimate world ; his defcriptions have always fome peculiarities , gathered by contemplating things as they really exist . It ...
الصفحة xliv
... given by cuftom and venera- tion . We fix our eyes upon his graces , and turn them from his deformities , and endure in him what we fhould in another loath or defpife . If we endured without praifing , refpect for the father of our ...
... given by cuftom and venera- tion . We fix our eyes upon his graces , and turn them from his deformities , and endure in him what we fhould in another loath or defpife . If we endured without praifing , refpect for the father of our ...
الصفحة xlviii
... given by Ilemings and Condel , the firft editors ; and those which he rejected , though , according to the licen- tioufnefs of the prefs in thofe times , they were printed during Shakespear's life , with his name , had been omitted by ...
... given by Ilemings and Condel , the firft editors ; and those which he rejected , though , according to the licen- tioufnefs of the prefs in thofe times , they were printed during Shakespear's life , with his name , had been omitted by ...
الصفحة lii
... given an example , nor very folicitous what is thought of notes , which he ought never to have confidered as part of his ferious employments , and which , I fuppofe , fince the ardour of compofition is remitted , he no longer numbers ...
... given an example , nor very folicitous what is thought of notes , which he ought never to have confidered as part of his ferious employments , and which , I fuppofe , fince the ardour of compofition is remitted , he no longer numbers ...
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