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 xi
... most natural paffions and most frequent 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 ...
... most natural paffions and most frequent 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 ...
الصفحة xx
... most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or imperfectly reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions ...
... most vigorously exert them , and his catastrophe is impro- bably produced or imperfectly reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions ...
الصفحة xxvii
... most part between the acts ; for , of fo much of the action as is reprefented , the real and poetical duration is the fame . If , in the first act , pre- parations for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the ...
... most part between the acts ; for , of fo much of the action as is reprefented , the real and poetical duration is the fame . If , in the first act , pre- parations for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... most popular , fuch as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the thread of the story in their hands . The ftories , which we now ...
... most popular , fuch as were read by many , and related by more ; for his audience could not have followed him through the intricacies of the drama , had they not held the thread of the story in their hands . The ftories , which we now ...
الصفحة xxxviii
... most likely that he had learned Latin fufficiently to make him acquainted with conftruction , but that he never advanced to an eafy perufal of the Roman au- thours . Concerning his fkill in modern languages , I can find no fufficient ...
... most likely that he had learned Latin fufficiently to make him acquainted with conftruction , but that he never advanced to an eafy perufal of the Roman au- thours . Concerning his fkill in modern languages , I can find no fufficient ...
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