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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... hereafter be explained , having , I hope , illustrated some , which others have neglected or mif- taken , fometimes by fhort remarks , or marginal di- rections , rections , such as every editor has added at his ' PREFACE . lix.
... hereafter be explained , having , I hope , illustrated some , which others have neglected or mif- taken , fometimes by fhort remarks , or marginal di- rections , rections , such as every editor has added at his ' PREFACE . lix.
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Samuel Johnson. rections , such as every editor has added at his will , and often by comments more laborious than the matter will feem to deferve ; but that which is most difficult is not always most important , and to an editor nothing ...
Samuel Johnson. rections , such as every editor has added at his will , and often by comments more laborious than the matter will feem to deferve ; but that which is most difficult is not always most important , and to an editor nothing ...
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... Such criticism I have attempted to practife , and where any paffage appeared inextricably perplexed ,. have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to fenfe , with leaft violence . But my first labour is , always to turn the old ...
... Such criticism I have attempted to practife , and where any paffage appeared inextricably perplexed ,. have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to fenfe , with leaft violence . But my first labour is , always to turn the old ...
الصفحة lxv
... such folemnity of diction . To thefe I anfwer with confidence , that they are judging of an art which they do not understand ; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance , nor promife that they would become in general , by ...
... such folemnity of diction . To thefe I anfwer with confidence , that they are judging of an art which they do not understand ; yet cannot much reproach them with their ignorance , nor promife that they would become in general , by ...
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