The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the prefaces, notes &c. of Rowe, Pope and many other critics. 6 vols. [in 12 pt. Followed by] Shakespeare's poems, Volume 1 |
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Page v
... seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent felection out of common con- verfation , and common occurrences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil ...
... seems scarcely to claim the merit of fiction , but to have been gleaned by diligent felection out of common con- verfation , and common occurrences . Upon every other stage the univerfal agent is love , by whose power all good and evil ...
Page xi
... seems to produce without labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome occafion to be comic , but in comedy he seems to re- pose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature ...
... seems to produce without labour , what no labour can improve . In tragedy he is always ftruggling after fome occafion to be comic , but in comedy he seems to re- pose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature ...
Page xii
... seems to have gathered his comic dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author equally remote , and among his other excellencies deserves to be studied as one of the original mafters of ...
... seems to have gathered his comic dialogue . He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the present age than any other author equally remote , and among his other excellencies deserves to be studied as one of the original mafters of ...
Page xiii
... seems not always fully to comprehend his own de- fign . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting , which the train of his ftory seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
... seems not always fully to comprehend his own de- fign . He omits opportunities of instructing or delighting , which the train of his ftory seems to force upon him , and apparently rejects those exhibitions which would be more affecting ...
Page xiv
... were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance seems conftantly to be worse , xiv PREFACE .
... were not very elegant . There muft , however , have been always fome modes of gaiety preferable to others , and a writer ought to chufe the best . In tragedy his performance seems conftantly to be worse , xiv PREFACE .
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