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 xv
... produce the intended viciffitudes of paffion . Fiction cannot move fo much , but that the attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be fome- times interrupted by unwelcome levity , yet ...
... produce the intended viciffitudes of paffion . Fiction cannot move fo much , but that the attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be fome- times interrupted by unwelcome levity , yet ...
الصفحة xvii
... produce with- out labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome occafion to be comick , but in comedy he feems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his ...
... produce with- out labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome occafion to be comick , but in comedy he feems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his ...
الصفحة xx
... produced or imperfectly reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions , and opinions of another , at the expence not only of likelihood ...
... produced or imperfectly reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions , and opinions of another , at the expence not only of likelihood ...
الصفحة xxviii
... her . The 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 .
... her . The 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 xxix
Samuel Johnson. Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed capable ...
Samuel Johnson. Imitations produce pain or pleasure , not because they are mistaken for realities , but because they bring realities to mind . When the imagination is recreated by a painted landscape , the trees are not supposed capable ...
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