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 xi
Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters
, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers of
barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that
thould ...
Other dramatists can only gain attention by hyperbolical or aggravated characters
, by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers of
barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that
thould ...
الصفحة xxix
We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his
book for the field of Agencourt . ... be allowed to pass , and that no more account
of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader
of ...
We are agitated in reading the history of Henry the Fifth , yet no man takes his
book for the field of Agencourt . ... be allowed to pass , and that no more account
of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama , than by the reader
of ...
الصفحة liii
Of the rest , to part I have given the highest approbation , by inserting the offered
reading in the text ; part I have left to the judgment of the reader , as doubtful ,
though specious ; and part I have censured without reserve , but I am sure
without ...
Of the rest , to part I have given the highest approbation , by inserting the offered
reading in the text ; part I have left to the judgment of the reader , as doubtful ,
though specious ; and part I have censured without reserve , but I am sure
without ...
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The work is performed , first by railing at the stupidity , negligence , ignorance ,
and asinine tastelessness of the former editors , and shewing , from all that goes
before and all that follows , the inelegance and absurdity of the old reading ; then
...
The work is performed , first by railing at the stupidity , negligence , ignorance ,
and asinine tastelessness of the former editors , and shewing , from all that goes
before and all that follows , the inelegance and absurdity of the old reading ; then
...
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The mind is resrigerated by interruption ; the thoughts are diverted from the
principal subject ; the reader is weary , he suspects not why ; and at last throws
away the book , which he has too diligently studied . Parts are not to be examined
till ...
The mind is resrigerated by interruption ; the thoughts are diverted from the
principal subject ; the reader is weary , he suspects not why ; and at last throws
away the book , which he has too diligently studied . Parts are not to be examined
till ...
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