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 xv
... elevation than comedy ; it required poly a calamitous conclusion , with which
the common criticism of that age was farissied , whatever lighter pleasure it
afforded in its progress . History „ History was a series of actions , with no PRE
FACE .
... elevation than comedy ; it required poly a calamitous conclusion , with which
the common criticism of that age was farissied , whatever lighter pleasure it
afforded in its progress . History „ History was a series of actions , with no PRE
FACE .
الصفحة xvi
History was a series of actions , with no other than chronological fuccesiion ,
independent of each other , and without any tendency to introduce or regulate the
conclusion . It is not always very nicely distinguished from tragedy . ' There is not
...
History was a series of actions , with no other than chronological fuccesiion ,
independent of each other , and without any tendency to introduce or regulate the
conclusion . It is not always very nicely distinguished from tragedy . ' There is not
...
الصفحة xxix
We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his
book for the field of Agencourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with
concomitants that encrease or diminish its effect , Familiar comedy is often inore ...
We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his
book for the field of Agencourt . A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with
concomitants that encrease or diminish its effect , Familiar comedy is often inore ...
الصفحة xxxiv
His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are always crouded with incidents , by
which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by fentiment or
argumentation ; and such is the power of the marvellous even over those who ...
His plots , whether historical or fabulous , are always crouded with incidents , by
which the attention of a rude people was more easily caught than by fentiment or
argumentation ; and such is the power of the marvellous even over those who ...
الصفحة 8
These corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the history of our language ,
and the true force of our words , can only be preferved , by keeping the text of
authours free from adulteration . Others , and those very frequent , smoothed che
...
These corruptions I have often filently rectified ; for the history of our language ,
and the true force of our words , can only be preferved , by keeping the text of
authours free from adulteration . Others , and those very frequent , smoothed che
...
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