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 xv
... written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe , were 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 ...
... written , which , by chang- ing the catastrophe , were 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 ...
الصفحة xvii
... written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick fcenes , he feems to produce with- out labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome occafion to be comick , but in comedy he feems to repofe ...
... written at laft with little felicity ; but in his comick fcenes , he feems to produce with- out labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome occafion to be comick , but in comedy he feems to repofe ...
الصفحة xxxi
... written with nice obfervation of critical rules , is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiofity , as the product of fuperfluous and oftentatious art , by which is fhewn , rather what is poffible , than what is neceffary . He that ...
... written with nice obfervation of critical rules , is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiofity , as the product of fuperfluous and oftentatious art , by which is fhewn , rather what is poffible , than what is neceffary . He that ...
الصفحة xxxvii
... written , and probably , even though he had known the language in the cominon degree , he could not have written it without affistance . In the story of Romeo and Juliet he is obferved to have followed the English tranflation , where it ...
... written , and probably , even though he had known the language in the cominon degree , he could not have written it without affistance . In the story of Romeo and Juliet he is obferved to have followed the English tranflation , where it ...
الصفحة xlvii
... written with much elegance or fpirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and therefore deferves to pafs through all fucceeding pub- lications . The nation had been for many years content enough with Mr. Rowe's performance ...
... written with much elegance or fpirit ; it relates however what is now to be known , and therefore deferves to pafs through all fucceeding pub- lications . The nation had been for many years content enough with Mr. Rowe's performance ...
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