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
is obtained ; yet , thus unaslisted by interest or parfion , they have past through
variations of taste and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one
generation to another , have received new honours at every transmision .
is obtained ; yet , thus unaslisted by interest or parfion , they have past through
variations of taste and changes of manners , and , as they devolved from one
generation to another , have received new honours at every transmision .
الصفحة xv
This reasoning is so specious , that it is received as true even by those who in
daily experience feel it to be false . The interchanges of mingled scenes feldom
fail to produce the intended vicissitudes of passion . Fiction cannot move so much
...
This reasoning is so specious , that it is received as true even by those who in
daily experience feel it to be false . The interchanges of mingled scenes feldom
fail to produce the intended vicissitudes of passion . Fiction cannot move so much
...
الصفحة xxv
... and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand will diminish
their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of
Corneille , they have very generally received by discovering that they have given
more ...
... and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they stand will diminish
their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of
Corneille , they have very generally received by discovering that they have given
more ...
الصفحة xxx
... these precepts have not been so easily received but for better reasons than I
have yet been able to find . The result of my enquiries , in which it would be
ludicrous to boast of impartiality , is , that the unities of time and place are not
essential ...
... these precepts have not been so easily received but for better reasons than I
have yet been able to find . The result of my enquiries , in which it would be
ludicrous to boast of impartiality , is , that the unities of time and place are not
essential ...
الصفحة xlviii
In this choice he exerted no judgement of his own ; the plays which he received ,
were given by Tlemings and Condel , the first editors ; and those which he
rejected , though , according to the licentiousness of the press in those times ,
they ...
In this choice he exerted no judgement of his own ; the plays which he received ,
were given by Tlemings and Condel , the first editors ; and those which he
rejected , though , according to the licentiousness of the press in those times ,
they ...
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