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 i
... . Akenfides Pleasures of the Imagination Michipula . Lat . and English . I am cated Alma Prion's Alne trgaslated by Martin . Murphy's Upholsterer , a farce . Comes a masques , The Soviel brow , a farce . MOTHE 心" Front Cover.
... . Akenfides Pleasures of the Imagination Michipula . Lat . and English . I am cated Alma Prion's Alne trgaslated by Martin . Murphy's Upholsterer , a farce . Comes a masques , The Soviel brow , a farce . MOTHE 心" Front Cover.
الصفحة vii
... pleasure , and are therefore praised only as pleasure is is obtained ; yet , thus unaffifted by intereft or A 4 PREFACE . vii . 1 ...
... pleasure , and are therefore praised only as pleasure is is obtained ; yet , thus unaffifted by intereft or A 4 PREFACE . vii . 1 ...
الصفحة viii
... pleasures of fudden wonder are foon exhausted , and the mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the puet of nature ; the poet that Holds up to his readers a ...
... pleasures of fudden wonder are foon exhausted , and the mind can only repofe on the ftability of truth . Shakespeare is above all writers , at least above all modern writers , the puet of nature ; the poet that Holds up to his readers a ...
الصفحة xv
... it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs . Hiftory Hiftory was a feries of actions , with no other PREFACE . xv.
... it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was fatisfied , whatever lighter pleasure it afforded in its progrefs . Hiftory Hiftory was a feries of actions , with no other PREFACE . xv.
الصفحة xvii
... pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural , and therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities of perfonal habits , are only fuperficial dies , bright and pleafing for a little while ...
... pleasures and vexations are communicable to all times and to all places ; they are natural , and therefore durable ; the adventitious peculiarities of perfonal habits , are only fuperficial dies , bright and pleafing for a little while ...
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