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 Seiten |
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... ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
... ftand will diminish their value , and withdraw from them the veneration which , from the time of Corneille , they have very generally received by discovering that they have given more trouble to the poet , than pleasure to the auditor ...
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... ftand , not that I think the prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been so easily received . but for better reafons than I have yet been ...
... ftand , not that I think the prefent question one of thofe that are to be decided by mere authority , but because it is to be fufpected , that these precepts have not been so easily received . but for better reafons than I have yet been ...
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... ftand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little , becomes at last capricious and cafual . Shakespeare , whether life or nature be his fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he ...
... ftand in the place of nature to another , and imitation , always deviating a little , becomes at last capricious and cafual . Shakespeare , whether life or nature be his fubject , fhews plainly , that he has feen with his own eyes ; he ...
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... ftand unauthorised , and contented themselves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of thefe alterations are only the ...
... ftand unauthorised , and contented themselves with Rowe's regulation of the text , even where they knew it to be arbitrary , and with a little confideration might have found it to be wrong . Some of thefe alterations are only the ...
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