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 xxxiv
... tranflated by North . His plots , whether hiftorical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more eafily caught than by fentiment or argumentation ; and fuch is the power of the ...
... tranflated by North . His plots , whether hiftorical or fabulous , are al- ways crouded with incidents , by which the attention of a rude people was more eafily caught than by fentiment or argumentation ; and fuch is the power of the ...
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 .
الصفحة xxxvii
... tranflation of , I prae , fequar . I have been told , that when Ca- liban , after a pleafing dream , fays , I cry'd to fleep again , the authour imitates Anacreon , who had , like every other man , the fame wifh on the fame occafion ...
... tranflation of , I prae , fequar . I have been told , that when Ca- liban , after a pleafing dream , fays , I cry'd to fleep again , the authour imitates Anacreon , who had , like every other man , the fame wifh on the fame occafion ...
الصفحة xxxviii
... tranflated . That much knowledge is fcattered over his works is very juftly obferved by Pope , but it is often fuch knowledge as books did not fupply . He that will understand Shakespeare , muft not be content to study him in the clofet ...
... tranflated . That much knowledge is fcattered over his works is very juftly obferved by Pope , but it is often fuch knowledge as books did not fupply . He that will understand Shakespeare , muft not be content to study him in the clofet ...
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