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 xiv
... writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- struct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may con- vey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition , and ...
... writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to in- struct by pleasing . That the mingled drama may con- vey all the inftruction of tragedy or comedy cannot be denied , because it includes both in its alterations of exhibition , and ...
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 xxiv
... writing , I refign him to critical juftice , without making any other demand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the cenfure which this ...
... writing , I refign him to critical juftice , without making any other demand in his favour , than that which must be indulged to all human excellence ; that his virtues be rated with his failings : But , from the cenfure which this ...
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 ...
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