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 xxxiii
... those who then afpired to plebeian learning was laid out upon adven- tures , giants , dragons , and enchantments . The Death of Arthur was the favourite volume . The mind , which has feafted on the luxurious won- ders of fiction , has ...
... those who then afpired to plebeian learning was laid out upon adven- tures , giants , dragons , and enchantments . The Death of Arthur was the favourite volume . The mind , which has feafted on the luxurious won- ders of fiction , has ...
الصفحة xxxiv
... it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our authour's labours were exhibited had more fkill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and and perhaps wanted fome vifible and difcriminated events , as xxxiv PREFACE .
... it declines , from the ear to the eye . Those to whom our authour's labours were exhibited had more fkill in pomps or proceffions than in poetical language , and and perhaps wanted fome vifible and difcriminated events , as xxxiv PREFACE .
الصفحة xxxvii
... those which were not translated were inacceffible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have fome French fcenes proves but little ; he might eafily procure them to be written , and probably , even though ...
... those which were not translated were inacceffible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is un- certain . That his plays have fome French fcenes proves but little ; he might eafily procure them to be written , and probably , even though ...
الصفحة xxxix
... 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 , as they were the most vigorous , were the best ...
... 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 , as they were the most vigorous , were the best ...
الصفحة xlii
... Those whom their fame invites to the fame ftudies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to ftand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little ...
... Those whom their fame invites to the fame ftudies , copy partly them , and partly nature , till the books of one age gain fuch authority , as to ftand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little ...
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