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 xxxi
... life , make fome allowance for his ignorance . Every man's performances , to be rightly eftima- ted , must be compared with the state of the age in which which he lived , and with his own particular oppor- PREFACE . xxxi.
... life , make fome allowance for his ignorance . Every man's performances , to be rightly eftima- ted , must be compared with the state of the age in which which he lived , and with his own particular oppor- PREFACE . xxxi.
الصفحة xxxv
... must be done as well as faid , and inac- tive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufi- cal or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our authour's extravagancies are endured by a nation , which ...
... must be done as well as faid , and inac- tive declamation is very coldly heard , however mufi- cal or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our authour's extravagancies are endured by a nation , which ...
الصفحة xxxviii
... must look for his meaning fometimes among the fports of the field , and fome- times among the manufactures of the fhop . There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader , nor was our language then fo indi- gent of books ...
... must look for his meaning fometimes among the fports of the field , and fome- times among the manufactures of the fhop . There is however proof enough that he was a very diligent reader , nor was our language then fo indi- gent of books ...
الصفحة xl
... must have looked upon mankind with perfpicacity , in the highest degree cu- rious and attentive . Other writers borrow their cha- racters from preceding writers , and diverfify them only by the accidental appendages of prefent man- ners ...
... must have looked upon mankind with perfpicacity , in the highest degree cu- rious and attentive . Other writers borrow their cha- racters from preceding writers , and diverfify them only by the accidental appendages of prefent man- ners ...
الصفحة xlii
... must take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore juft , their defcriptions are verified by every eye , and their fen- timents acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame ...
... must take their fentiments and defcriptions immediately from knowledge ; the refemblance is therefore juft , their defcriptions are verified by every eye , and their fen- timents acknowledged by every breaft . Those whom their fame ...
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