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 v
[ v ] P R E F A C E. TH THAT praises are without reason lavished on excellence
are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who ,
being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of ...
[ v ] P R E F A C E. TH THAT praises are without reason lavished on excellence
are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who ,
being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of ...
الصفحة vii
... they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity , but are read without any
other reason than the desire of pleasure , and are therefore praised only as
pleasure A4 is is obtained ; yet , thus unaslisted by interest or P R E F A C E. vii.
... they can neither indulge vanity nor gratify malignity , but are read without any
other reason than the desire of pleasure , and are therefore praised only as
pleasure A4 is is obtained ; yet , thus unaslisted by interest or P R E F A C E. vii.
الصفحة xxiii
But the admirers of this great poet have never lets reason to indulge their hopes
of supreme excellence , than when he seems fully resolved to sink them in
dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness , the
danger of ...
But the admirers of this great poet have never lets reason to indulge their hopes
of supreme excellence , than when he seems fully resolved to sink them in
dejection , and mollify them with tender emotions by the fall of greatness , the
danger of ...
الصفحة xxvii
There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extasy should count the clock ,
or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can
make the stage a field . The truth is , that the spectators are always in their fenses
...
There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extasy should count the clock ,
or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can
make the stage a field . The truth is , that the spectators are always in their fenses
...
الصفحة xliii
... to the drama , is to be found , though , I think , not in Gorboduc which is
confeffeddy before our authour ; yet in Hieronnymo , of which the date is not
certain , but which there is reason to believe at least as old as his earliest plays .
... to the drama , is to be found , though , I think , not in Gorboduc which is
confeffeddy before our authour ; yet in Hieronnymo , of which the date is not
certain , but which there is reason to believe at least as old as his earliest plays .
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