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 viii
... writers , at least above all modern writers , the puet of nature ; the poet that Holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the coftoms of particular places , unpractifed by ...
... writers , at least above all modern writers , the puet of nature ; the poet that Holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life . His characters are not modified by the coftoms of particular places , unpractifed by ...
الصفحة xi
... writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his ...
... writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from the tale , would be equally deceived . Shakespeare has no heroes ; his ...
الصفحة xii
... writers raife up before him , may here be cured of his delirious extafies , by reading human fentiments in human language ; by fcenes from which a hermit may eftimate the tranfactions of the world , and a confeffor predict the progrefs ...
... writers raife up before him , may here be cured of his delirious extafies , by reading human fentiments in human language ; by fcenes from which a hermit may eftimate the tranfactions of the world , and a confeffor predict the progrefs ...
الصفحة xiv
... writer who attempted both . 1 Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and forrow not only in one mind but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided be- tween serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the ...
... writer who attempted both . 1 Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and forrow not only in one mind but in one compofition . Almost all his plays are divided be- tween serious and ludicrous characters , and , in the ...
الصفحة xx
... writer's duty to make the world better , and justice is a virtue inde- pendant on time or place . The plots are often fo loosely formed , that a very flight confideration may improve them , and fo care- lefsly pursued , that he feems ...
... writer's duty to make the world better , and justice is a virtue inde- pendant on time or place . The plots are often fo loosely formed , that a very flight confideration may improve them , and fo care- lefsly pursued , that he feems ...
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