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 xxix
... ignorance , it is , I think , impoffible to decide , We may reafonably fuppose , and useless to inquire . that , when he rofe to notice , he did not want the counfels counfels and admonitions of fcholars and crticks , and that PREFACE ...
... ignorance , it is , I think , impoffible to decide , We may reafonably fuppose , and useless to inquire . that , when he rofe to notice , he did not want the counfels counfels and admonitions of fcholars and crticks , and that PREFACE ...
الصفحة xxxi
... condition of his life , make fome allowance for his ignorance . Every man's performances , to be rightly eftima- ted , must be compared with the state of the age in which which he lived , and with his own particular oppor- PREFACE . xxxi.
... condition of his life , make fome allowance for his ignorance . Every man's performances , to be rightly eftima- ted , must be compared with the state of the age in which which he lived , and with his own particular oppor- PREFACE . xxxi.
الصفحة xlii
... ignorant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are compleat . Perhaps it would not be eafy to find any authour , except Homer , who invented fo much as Shakespeare , who who fo much advanced the ftudies ...
... ignorant feel his reprefentations to be juft , and the learned fee that they are compleat . Perhaps it would not be eafy to find any authour , except Homer , who invented fo much as Shakespeare , who who fo much advanced the ftudies ...
الصفحة l
... places fhewn him , as he would have fhewn himself , for the reader's diverfion , that the inflated emptiness of fome notes may juftify or excuse the contraction of the reft . Theo Theobald , thus weak and ignorant , thus mean and PREFAC E.
... places fhewn him , as he would have fhewn himself , for the reader's diverfion , that the inflated emptiness of fome notes may juftify or excuse the contraction of the reft . Theo Theobald , thus weak and ignorant , thus mean and PREFAC E.
الصفحة li
Samuel Johnson. Theobald , thus weak and ignorant , thus mean and faithlefs , thus petulant and oftentatious , by the good luck of having Pope for his enemy , has efcaped , and escaped alone , with reputation , from this undertaking . So ...
Samuel Johnson. Theobald , thus weak and ignorant , thus mean and faithlefs , thus petulant and oftentatious , by the good luck of having Pope for his enemy , has efcaped , and escaped alone , with reputation , from this undertaking . So ...
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