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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... reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions fuperinduced and adventitious . His ftory requires Ro- mans or ...
... reprefented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident ; and if he preferves the effential character , is not very careful of diftinctions fuperinduced and adventitious . His ftory requires Ro- mans or ...
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... reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions , and opinions of another , at the expence not only of likelihood , but of poffi bility ...
... reprefented . He had no regard to diftinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without fcruple , the customs , inftitutions , and opinions of another , at the expence not only of likelihood , but of poffi bility ...
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... reprefented , the real and poetical duration is the fame . If , in the first act , pre- parations for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the event of the war may , with- out abfurdity , be reprefented , in the ...
... reprefented , the real and poetical duration is the fame . If , in the first act , pre- parations for war against Mithridates are reprefented to be made in Rome , the event of the war may , with- out abfurdity , be reprefented , in the ...
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