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 xxiv
... unities ; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of criticks . For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical juftice , without making any ...
... unities ; his violation of thofe laws which have been inftituted and established by the joint authority of poets and of criticks . For his other deviations from the art of writing , I refign him to critical juftice , without making any ...
الصفحة xxv
... unities of time and place he has fhewn no regard , and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very ...
... unities of time and place he has fhewn no regard , and perhaps a nearer view of the principles on which they ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very ...
الصفحة xxix
... unities , and re- jected them by defign , or deviated from them by happy ignorance , it is , I think , impoffible to decide , We may reafonably fuppose , and useless to inquire . that , when he rofe to notice , he did not want the ...
... unities , and re- jected them by defign , or deviated from them by happy ignorance , it is , I think , impoffible to decide , We may reafonably fuppose , and useless to inquire . that , when he rofe to notice , he did not want the ...
الصفحة xxx
... unities of time and place arife evidently from false affumptions , and , by circumfcribing the extent . of the drama , leffen its variety , I cannot think it much to be lamented , that they were not known by him , or not observed : Nor ...
... unities of time and place arife evidently from false affumptions , and , by circumfcribing the extent . of the drama , leffen its variety , I cannot think it much to be lamented , that they were not known by him , or not observed : Nor ...
الصفحة xxxi
... unities unbroken , deferves the like applause with the architect , who fhall dif play all the orders of architecture in a citadel , without any deduction from its ftrength ; but the principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy ...
... unities unbroken , deferves the like applause with the architect , who fhall dif play all the orders of architecture in a citadel , without any deduction from its ftrength ; but the principal beauty of a citadel is to exclude the enemy ...
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