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 xvii
... thoughts and the language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . The force of his comick fcenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by ...
... thoughts and the language , and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action . His tragedy feems to be skill , his comedy to be instinct . The force of his comick fcenes has fuffered little diminution from the changes made by ...
الصفحة xxii
... thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial fentiments and vulgar vulgar ideas difappoint the attention , to which they are xxii PREFACE .
... thought is fubtle , or the image always great where the line is bulky ; the equality of words to things is very often neglected , and trivial fentiments and vulgar vulgar ideas difappoint the attention , to which they are xxii PREFACE .
الصفحة xxiv
... thought ftrange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of ...
... thought ftrange , that , in enumerating the defects of this writer , I have not yet mentioned his neglect of the unities ; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of ...
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 xxxvi
... deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought , as will happen to xxxvi PREFACE .
... deep learning in many imitations of old writers ; but the examples which I have known urged , were drawn from books tranflated in his time ; or were fuch fuch eafy coincidencies of thought , as will happen to xxxvi PREFACE .
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