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 vii
... incidents , new name his characters , and paraphrafe his fentiments . The reverence due to writings that have long fub- fifted arifes therefore not from any credulous confi- dence in the fuperior wifdom of paft ages , or gloomy ...
... incidents , new name his characters , and paraphrafe his fentiments . The reverence due to writings that have long fub- fifted arifes therefore not from any credulous confi- dence in the fuperior wifdom of paft ages , or gloomy ...
الصفحة x
... incident which pro- duces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and fim- plicity , that it seems fcarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent felec- tion out of common converfation , and common oc ...
... incident which pro- duces it , and is purfued with fo much eafe and fim- plicity , that it seems fcarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent felec- tion out of common converfation , and common oc ...
الصفحة xi
... incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents will not happen , but if it were poffible ...
... incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the book will not know them in the world : Shakespeare approximates the re- mote , and familiarizes the wonderful ; the event which he reprefents will not happen , but if it were poffible ...
الصفحة xiv
... interrupted in their progreffion , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at laft the power power to move , which conftitutes the perfection of dramatick xjv PREFACE .
... interrupted in their progreffion , and that the principal event , being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents , wants at laft the power power to move , which conftitutes the perfection of dramatick xjv PREFACE .
الصفحة xv
... incidents , in their opinion conftituted a comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays were written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe , were tragedies to - day and come- dies to - morrow , Tragedy was not ...
... incidents , in their opinion conftituted a comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays were written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe , were tragedies to - day and come- dies to - morrow , Tragedy was not ...
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