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 vi
To works , however , of which the excellence is not abfolute and definite , but
gradual and comparative ; to works not raised upon principles demonstrative and
scientifick , but appealing wholly to observation and experience , no other test
can ...
To works , however , of which the excellence is not abfolute and definite , but
gradual and comparative ; to works not raised upon principles demonstrative and
scientifick , but appealing wholly to observation and experience , no other test
can ...
الصفحة ix
His persons acl and speak by the influence of those general paffions and
principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is
continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an
individual ; in ...
His persons acl and speak by the influence of those general paffions and
principles by which all minds are agitated , and the whole system of life is
continued in motion . In the writings of other poets a character is too often an
individual ; in ...
الصفحة xii
His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the centure of criticks , who
form their judgments upon narrower principles . Dennis and Rzymer think his
Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings as not
completely ...
His adherence to general nature has exposed him to the centure of criticks , who
form their judgments upon narrower principles . Dennis and Rzymer think his
Romans not sufficiently Roman ; and Voltaire censures his kings as not
completely ...
الصفحة xxxi
Perhaps , what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written , may recal
the principles of the drama to a new examination . I am almost frigheed at my own
temerity ; and when I estimate the fame and the strength of those that maintain ...
Perhaps , what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written , may recal
the principles of the drama to a new examination . I am almost frigheed at my own
temerity ; and when I estimate the fame and the strength of those that maintain ...
الصفحة xl
Speculation had not yet attempted to analyse the inind , to trace the passions to
their sources , to unfold the se· Ininal principles of vice and virtue , or found the
depths of the heart for the motives of action . All those enquiries , which from that
...
Speculation had not yet attempted to analyse the inind , to trace the passions to
their sources , to unfold the se· Ininal principles of vice and virtue , or found the
depths of the heart for the motives of action . All those enquiries , which from that
...
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