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 vi
... must be estimated by their proportion to the general and col- lective ability of man , as it is difcovered in a long fucceffion of endeavours . Of the first building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was ...
... must be estimated by their proportion to the general and col- lective ability of man , as it is difcovered in a long fucceffion of endeavours . Of the first building that was raised , it might be with certainty determined that it was ...
الصفحة xv
... must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be fome- times interrupted by unwelcome levity , yet let it be confidered likewife , that melancholy is often not pleasing , and that the difturbance of one man may be the relief of another ...
... must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be fome- times interrupted by unwelcome levity , yet let it be confidered likewife , that melancholy is often not pleasing , and that the difturbance of one man may be the relief of another ...
الصفحة xxi
... must , however , have been always fome modes of gayety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chuse the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worfe , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion which ...
... must , however , have been always fome modes of gayety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chuse the best . In tragedy his performance feems conftantly to be worfe , as his labour is more . The effufions of paf- fion which ...
الصفحة xxiv
... must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the cenfure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I fhall , with due reverence to that learning which I muft oppose , adventure ...
... must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the cenfure which this irregularity may bring upon him , I fhall , with due reverence to that learning which I muft oppose , adventure ...
الصفحة xxvii
... must be in fome place ; but the different actions that com- pleat a story may be in places very remote from each other ; and where is the abfurdity of allowing that space to represent firft Athens , and then Sicily , which was always ...
... must be in fome place ; but the different actions that com- pleat a story may be in places very remote from each other ; and where is the abfurdity of allowing that space to represent firft Athens , and then Sicily , which was always ...
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