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 xiv
... imitation , known by the names of tragedy and comedy , compofitions intended to promote different ends by contrary means , and confidered as fo little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a fingle writer who ...
... imitation , known by the names of tragedy and comedy , compofitions intended to promote different ends by contrary means , and confidered as fo little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a fingle writer who ...
الصفحة xvii
... imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : He therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In tragedy he often writes with great ...
... imitation , nor criticks of fuch autho- rity as might restrain his extravagance : He therefore indulged his natural difpofition , and his difpofition , as Rhymer has remarked , led him to comedy . In tragedy he often writes with great ...
الصفحة xxviii
... imitations of fucceffive actions , and why may not the fecond imitation reprefent an action that hap- pened years after the first ; if it be fo connected with it , that nothing but time can be fuppofed to inter- vene . Time is , of all ...
... imitations of fucceffive actions , and why may not the fecond imitation reprefent an action that hap- pened years after the first ; if it be fo connected with it , that nothing but time can be fuppofed to inter- vene . Time is , of all ...
الصفحة xxix
Samuel Johnson. Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed capable ...
Samuel Johnson. Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed capable ...
الصفحة xxxvi
... discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought , as will happen to xxxvi PREFACE .
... discovered deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought , as will happen to xxxvi PREFACE .
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