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 viii
... please many , and please long , but Particular juft reprefentations of general 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 ...
... please many , and please long , but Particular juft reprefentations of general 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 ...
الصفحة xix
... please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpofe . From his writings in- deed a fyftem of focial duty may be felected , for he that thinks reasonably muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop ...
... please than to inftruct , that he feems to write without any moral purpofe . From his writings in- deed a fyftem of focial duty may be felected , for he that thinks reasonably muft think morally ; but his precepts and axioms drop ...
الصفحة xxviii
... delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treafons real , they would please no more . Imitations Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are xxviii PRE FACE .
... delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treafons real , they would please no more . Imitations Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are xxviii PRE FACE .
الصفحة xxxiv
... please us by particular fpeeches , but he always makes us anxious for the event , and has perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting reftlefs and unquench- able curiofity , and compelling him ...
... please us by particular fpeeches , but he always makes us anxious for the event , and has perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting reftlefs and unquench- able curiofity , and compelling him ...
الصفحة xliii
... please , there being no theatrical piece of any older writer , of which the name is known , except to antiquaries and collectors of books , which are fought because they are scarce , and would not have been fcarce , had they been much ...
... please , there being no theatrical piece of any older writer , of which the name is known , except to antiquaries and collectors of books , which are fought because they are scarce , and would not have been fcarce , had they been much ...
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