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 v
... perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent excellence ; and the mind contemplates ge- nius through the fhides of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great con- cention of criticifm is to find the ...
... perhaps are more willing to honour paft than prefent excellence ; and the mind contemplates ge- nius through the fhides of age , as the eye furveys the fun through artificial opacity . The great con- cention of criticifm is to find the ...
الصفحة xi
... perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every speech may be affigned to the proper fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
... perhaps no poet ever kept his perfonages more diftinct from each other . I will not fay with Pope , that every speech may be affigned to the proper fpeaker , because many speeches there are which have nothing characteristical ; but , ...
الصفحة xii
... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish Ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions ...
... perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish Ufurper is reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions ...
الصفحة xxi
... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There 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 ...
... perhaps the relaxations of that fe- verity were not very elegant . There 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 ...
الصفحة xxv
... perhaps fome incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
... perhaps fome incidents that might be spared , as in other poets there is much talk that only fills up time upon the stage ; but the general system makes gradual advances , and the end of the play is the end of expectation . To the ...
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