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 xviii
... his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deserves to be ftudied as one of the original xviii PREFACE .
... his comick dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other authour equally remote , and among his other excel- lencies lencies deserves to be ftudied as one of the original xviii PREFACE .
الصفحة xix
Samuel Johnson. lencies deserves to be ftudied as one of the original masters of our language . These obfervations are to be confidered not as un- exceptionably conftant , but as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's ...
Samuel Johnson. lencies deserves to be ftudied as one of the original masters of our language . These obfervations are to be confidered not as un- exceptionably conftant , but as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's ...
الصفحة xxviii
... original ; as reprefenting to the au- ditor what he would himself feel , if he were to do or fuffer what is there feigned to be fuffered or to be done . The reflection that ftrikes the heart is not , that the evils before us are real ...
... original ; as reprefenting to the au- ditor what he would himself feel , if he were to do or fuffer what is there feigned to be fuffered or to be done . The reflection that ftrikes the heart is not , that the evils before us are real ...
الصفحة xxxii
... original powers , and how much to cafual and adventitious help . The pa- laces of Peru or Mexico were certainly mean and in- commodious habitations , if compared to the houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them ...
... original powers , and how much to cafual and adventitious help . The pa- laces of Peru or Mexico were certainly mean and in- commodious habitations , if compared to the houses of European monarchs ; yet who could forbear to view them ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... original . As knowledge advances , pleasure paffes from the eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our authour's labours were exhibited had more fkill in pomps or proceffions than in ...
... original . As knowledge advances , pleasure paffes from the eye to the ear , but returns , as it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our authour's labours were exhibited had more fkill in pomps or proceffions than in ...
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