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
... Perhaps , what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written , may recal the principles of the drama to a new examination . I am almoft fright- ed at my own temerity ; and when I eftimate the fame and the strength of those that ...
... Perhaps , what I have here not dogmatically but deliberately written , may recal the principles of the drama to a new examination . I am almoft fright- ed at my own temerity ; and when I eftimate the fame and the strength of those that ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting reftlefs and unquench- able curiofity , and compelling him that reads his work to read it through . The fhows and bustle with which his plays abound ...
... perhaps excelled all but Homer in fecuring the first purpose of a writer , by exciting reftlefs and unquench- able curiofity , and compelling him that reads his work to read it through . The fhows and bustle with which his plays abound ...
الصفحة xxxv
Samuel Johnson. and perhaps wanted fome vifible and difcriminated events , as comments on the dialogue . He knew how he fhould moft pleafe ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the ...
Samuel Johnson. and perhaps wanted fome vifible and difcriminated events , as comments on the dialogue . He knew how he fhould moft pleafe ; and whether his practice is more agreeable to nature , or whether his example has prejudiced the ...
الصفحة xxxix
... perhaps we are not to look for his beginning , like those of other writers , in his leaft perfect works ; art bad fo little , and mature fo large a fhare in what he did , that for ought I know , fays he , the performances of his youth ...
... perhaps we are not to look for his beginning , like those of other writers , in his leaft perfect works ; art bad fo little , and mature fo large a fhare in what he did , that for ought I know , fays he , the performances of his youth ...
الصفحة xl
... perhaps not many in other modern languages , which fhewed life in its native colours . The conteft about the original benevolence or ma- lignity of man had not yet commenced . Specula- tion had not yet attempted to analyfe the mind , to ...
... perhaps not many in other modern languages , which fhewed life in its native colours . The conteft about the original benevolence or ma- lignity of man had not yet commenced . Specula- tion had not yet attempted to analyfe the mind , to ...
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