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 viii
... 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 , which can operate but upon ...
... 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 , which can operate but upon ...
الصفحة xi
... reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and ...
... reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his fcenes are occupied only by men , who act and ...
الصفحة xxii
... reader . It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy fentiment , which he cannot well exprefs , and will not reject ; he ftruggles with it a while , and if it continues ftubborn , comprises it in words fuch as ...
... reader . It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy fentiment , which he cannot well exprefs , and will not reject ; he ftruggles with it a while , and if it continues ftubborn , comprises it in words fuch as ...
الصفحة xxix
... reader of a narrative , before whom may pafs in an hour the life of a hero , or the revolutions of an empire . Whether Shakespeare knew the unities , and re- jected them by defign , or deviated from them by happy ignorance , it is , I ...
... reader of a narrative , before whom may pafs in an hour the life of a hero , or the revolutions of an empire . Whether Shakespeare knew the unities , and re- jected them by defign , or deviated from them by happy ignorance , it is , I ...
الصفحة xxxii
... reader a book be not worfe or better for the circumftances of the authour , yet as there is always a filent reference of human works to human abilities , and as the enquiry , how far man may extend his defigns , or how high he may rate ...
... reader a book be not worfe or better for the circumftances of the authour , yet as there is always a filent reference of human works to human abilities , and as the enquiry , how far man may extend his defigns , or how high he may rate ...
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