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
... nature no man can properly call a river deep or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains and many rivers ; fo in the produc- tions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works ...
... nature no man can properly call a river deep or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains and many rivers ; fo in the produc- tions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been compared with other works ...
الصفحة viii
... nature . manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The ir- regular combinations of fanciful invention may de- light a - while , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends ...
... nature . manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The ir- regular combinations of fanciful invention may de- light a - while , by that novelty of which the common fatiety of life fends ...
الصفحة xi
... 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 will ...
... 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 will ...
الصفحة xii
... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed . This therefore is the praife of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in ...
... nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed . This therefore is the praife of Shakespeare , that his drama is the mirrour of life ; that he who has mazed his imagination , in ...
الصفحة xiii
... natural power upon kings . Thefe are the petty cavils of petty minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country ... nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and ...
... natural power upon kings . Thefe are the petty cavils of petty minds ; a poet overlooks the cafual diftinction of country ... nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and ...
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