The Plays of William Shakspeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1George Kearsley, 1806 |
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Page xxxvii
... hope for eminence from the heresies of pa- radox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard ...
... hope for eminence from the heresies of pa- radox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients , are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses , and flatter themselves that the regard ...
Page xxxviii
... can be styled excellent till it has been compared with other works of the same kind . De- monstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years Xxxviii JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
... can be styled excellent till it has been compared with other works of the same kind . De- monstration immediately displays its power , and has nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years Xxxviii JOHNSON'S PREFACE .
Page xxxix
With Notes of Various Commentators William Shakespeare. nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man , as it is ...
With Notes of Various Commentators William Shakespeare. nothing to hope or fear from the flux of years ; but works tentative and experimental must be estimated by their proportion to the general and collective ability of man , as it is ...
Page lii
... hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction for- sake the vulgar , when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refine- ment , where propriety resides , and where this poet seems ...
... hope of finding or making better ; those who wish for distinction for- sake the vulgar , when the vulgar is right ; but there is a conversation above grossness and below refine- ment , where propriety resides , and where this poet seems ...
Page lxiv
... hope to add dignity or force to the soliloquy of Cato ? A play read , affects the mind like a play acted . It is therefore evident , that the action is not supposed to be real , and it follows , that between the acts a longer or shorter ...
... hope to add dignity or force to the soliloquy of Cato ? A play read , affects the mind like a play acted . It is therefore evident , that the action is not supposed to be real , and it follows , that between the acts a longer or shorter ...
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