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 xiii
... tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and innumerable modes of ...
... tragedies or comedies , but compo- fitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of pro- portion and innumerable modes of ...
الصفحة xiv
... tragedy and comedy , compofitions intended to promote different ends by contrary means , and confidered as fo little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a fingle writer who attempted both . 1 Shakespeare has ...
... tragedy and comedy , compofitions intended to promote different ends by contrary means , and confidered as fo little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or Romans a fingle writer who attempted both . 1 Shakespeare has ...
الصفحة xv
... tragedies to - day and come- dies to - morrow , Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was ...
... tragedies to - day and come- dies to - morrow , Tragedy was not in thofe times a poem of more general dignity or elevation than comedy ; it required only a calamitous conclufion , with which the common criticism of that age was ...
الصفحة xvi
... tragedy . There is not much nearer approach to unity of action in the tragedy of Antony and Cleo- patra , than in the hiftory of Richard the Second . But a hiftory might be continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no ...
... tragedy . There is not much nearer approach to unity of action in the tragedy of Antony and Cleo- patra , than in the hiftory of Richard the Second . But a hiftory might be continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no ...
الصفحة xvii
... 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 a century and a half , in manners ...
... 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 a century and a half , in manners ...
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