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
... Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to tranfcend the common limits of human intelligence , 1 intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after vi . PREFACE .
... Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once difcovered to be perfect ; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to tranfcend the common limits of human intelligence , 1 intelligence , but by remarking , that nation after vi . PREFACE .
الصفحة viii
... human judgment , though it be gra- dually gaining upon certainty , never becomes infal- lible ; and approbation ... humanity , fuch as the world will viii PRE FACE .
... human judgment , though it be gra- dually gaining upon certainty , never becomes infal- lible ; and approbation ... humanity , fuch as the world will viii PRE FACE .
الصفحة ix
Samuel Johnson. geny of common humanity , fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and fpeak by the influence of thofe ge- neral paffions and principles by which all minds are agitated ...
Samuel Johnson. geny of common humanity , fuch as the world will always fupply , and obfervation will always find . His perfons act and fpeak by the influence of thofe ge- neral paffions and principles by which all minds are agitated ...
الصفحة x
... human ever was distres- fed ; to deliver them as nothing human ever was de- livered , is the bufinefs of a modern dramatist . For this probability is violated , life is mifreprefented , and language is depraved . But love is only one of ...
... human ever was distres- fed ; to deliver them as nothing human ever was de- livered , is the bufinefs of a modern dramatist . For this probability is violated , life is mifreprefented , and language is depraved . But love is only one of ...
الصفحة xi
... human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the ...
... human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or acted on the ...
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