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 v
... hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or thofe , who , being forced by difappointment upon confolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pofterity what the prefent age refufes , and flatter themfelves that the regard ...
... hope for eminence from the herefies of paradox ; or thofe , who , being forced by difappointment upon confolatory expedients , are willing to hope from pofterity what the prefent age refufes , and flatter themfelves that the regard ...
الصفحة vi
... hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and col- lective ability of man , as it is difcovered in a long fucceffion of endeavours . Of the first ...
... hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and col- lective ability of man , as it is difcovered in a long fucceffion of endeavours . Of the first ...
الصفحة xviii
... hope of finding or making . better ; thofe who wish for diftinction forfake the vulgar , when the vulgar is right ; but there is a con- verfation above groffhefs and below refinement , where propriety refides , and where this poet feems ...
... hope of finding or making . better ; thofe who wish for diftinction forfake the vulgar , when the vulgar is right ; but there is a con- verfation above groffhefs and below refinement , where propriety refides , and where this poet feems ...
الصفحة xxix
... hope to add dignity or force to the foli- loquy of Cato . A play read , affects the mind like a play acted . It is therefore evident , that the action is not fup- posed to be real , and it follows that between the acts a longer or ...
... hope to add dignity or force to the foli- loquy of Cato . A play read , affects the mind like a play acted . It is therefore evident , that the action is not fup- posed to be real , and it follows that between the acts a longer or ...
الصفحة xlv
... hope was at an end ; he folicited no addition of honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to entangle differ- ent plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may be at leaft ...
... hope was at an end ; he folicited no addition of honour from the reader . He therefore made no fcruple to repeat the fame jefts in many dialogues , or to entangle differ- ent plots by the fame knot of perplexity , which may be at leaft ...
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