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 vii
... Poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly ...
... Poet , of whofe works I have undertaken the revision , may now begin to affume the dignity of an ancient , and claim the privilege of established fame and prefcriptive veneration . He has long outlived his century , the term commonly ...
الصفحة viii
... poet that Holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the coftoms of particular places , unpractifed by the reft of the world ; by the peculiarities of ftudies or profeffions ...
... poet that Holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the coftoms of particular places , unpractifed by the reft of the world ; by the peculiarities of ftudies or profeffions ...
الصفحة ix
... poets a character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills . the plays of Shakespeare with ...
... poets a character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of defign that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills . the plays of Shakespeare with ...
الصفحة x
... poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular regular or exorbitant , was a caufe of happiness or X א ! PREFACE .
... poet , who caught his ideas from the living world , and exhibited only what he faw before him . He knew , that any other paffion , as it was regular regular or exorbitant , was a caufe of happiness or X א ! PREFACE .
الصفحة xi
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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