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
... or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind , but is the consequence
of acknowledged and indubitable positions , that what has been longest known
has been most confidered , and what is most considered is best under tood .
... or gloomy persuasion of the degeneracy of mankind , but is the consequence
of acknowledged and indubitable positions , that what has been longest known
has been most confidered , and what is most considered is best under tood .
الصفحة xi
... who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or
acted on the same occasion : Even where the agency is supernatural the
dialogue is level with life : Other writers disguise the most natural passions and
most ...
... who act and speak as the reader thinks that he should himself have spoken or
acted on the same occasion : Even where the agency is supernatural the
dialogue is level with life : Other writers disguise the most natural passions and
most ...
الصفحة xix
His first defect is that to which may be impuced most of the evil in books or in men
. He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is so much more careful to please than
to instruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings ...
His first defect is that to which may be impuced most of the evil in books or in men
. He facrifices virtue to convenience , and is so much more careful to please than
to instruct , that he seems to write without any moral purpose . From his writings ...
الصفحة xxxviii
It is most likely that he had learned Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with
construction , but that he never advanced to an easy perusal of the Roman
authours . Concerning his skill in modern languages , I can find no sufficient
ground of ...
It is most likely that he had learned Latin sufficiently to make him acquainted with
construction , but that he never advanced to an easy perusal of the Roman
authours . Concerning his skill in modern languages , I can find no sufficient
ground of ...
الصفحة lx
rections , such as every editor has added at his will , and often by comments
more laborious than the matter will seem to deserve ; but that which is most
difficult is not always most important , and to an editor nothing is a trifle by which
his ...
rections , such as every editor has added at his will , and often by comments
more laborious than the matter will seem to deserve ; but that which is most
difficult is not always most important , and to an editor nothing is a trifle by which
his ...
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