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 v
... add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those
, who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing
to hope from pofterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that ...
... add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those
, who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing
to hope from pofterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that ...
الصفحة xix
These observations are to be considered not as une exceptionably constant , but
as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is
affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet not wholly without ruggedness or difficulty ...
These observations are to be considered not as une exceptionably constant , but
as containing general and predominant truth . Shakespeare's familiar dialogue is
affirmed to be smooth and clear , yet not wholly without ruggedness or difficulty ...
الصفحة xxiii
A quibble poor and barren as it is , gave him such delight , that he was content to
purchase it , by the facrifice of reason , propriety and truth . A quibble was to bim
che fatal a 4 Cleopatra 7 Cleopatra for which he lost the world , and was ...
A quibble poor and barren as it is , gave him such delight , that he was content to
purchase it , by the facrifice of reason , propriety and truth . A quibble was to bim
che fatal a 4 Cleopatra 7 Cleopatra for which he lost the world , and was ...
الصفحة xxvii
The truth is , that the spectators are always in their fenses , and know , from the
first act to the last , chat the stage is only a stage , and that the players are only
players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gelture and
...
The truth is , that the spectators are always in their fenses , and know , from the
first act to the last , chat the stage is only a stage , and that the players are only
players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gelture and
...
الصفحة liv
must lament the unsuccessfulness of enquiry , and the Now advances of truth ,
when he reflects , that great part of the labour of every writer is only the
destruction of those that went before him . The first care of the builder of a new
system , is to ...
must lament the unsuccessfulness of enquiry , and the Now advances of truth ,
when he reflects , that great part of the labour of every writer is only the
destruction of those that went before him . The first care of the builder of a new
system , is to ...
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