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 viii
But because human judgment , though it be gradually gaining upon certainty ,
never becomes infallible ; and approbation , though long continued , may yet be
only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what ...
But because human judgment , though it be gradually gaining upon certainty ,
never becomes infallible ; and approbation , though long continued , may yet be
only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what ...
الصفحة x
... to distress them as nothing human ever was distressed ; to deliver them as
nothing human ever was de : livered , is the business of a modern dramatist . For
this probability is violated , life is misrepresented , and language is depraved .
... to distress them as nothing human ever was distressed ; to deliver them as
nothing human ever was de : livered , is the business of a modern dramatist . For
this probability is violated , life is misrepresented , and language is depraved .
الصفحة xii
possible , its effects would be probably such as he has assigned ; and it may be
said , that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but
as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed . This therefore is the
...
possible , its effects would be probably such as he has assigned ; and it may be
said , that he has not only shewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but
as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be exposed . This therefore is the
...
الصفحة xxxii
1 which he lived , and with his own particular opportunities ; and though to the
reader a book be not worse or better for the circumstances of the authour , yet as
there is always a silent reference of human works to human abilities , and as the
...
1 which he lived , and with his own particular opportunities ; and though to the
reader a book be not worse or better for the circumstances of the authour , yet as
there is always a silent reference of human works to human abilities , and as the
...
الصفحة xxxv
We find in Cato innumerable beauties which enamour us of its authour , but we
see nothing that acquaints us with human sentiments or human actions ; we
place it with the fireft and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by ...
We find in Cato innumerable beauties which enamour us of its authour , but we
see nothing that acquaints us with human sentiments or human actions ; we
place it with the fireft and the noblest progeny which judgment propagates by ...
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