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 viii
... fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compofitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable ...
... fenfe either tragedies or comedies , but compofitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real ftate of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow , mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable ...
Page xl
... fenfe is plain to every other reader . But his emendations are like- wife often happy and juft ; and his interpretation of obfcure paffages learned and fagacious . Of his notes , I have commonly rejected those , against which the ...
... fenfe is plain to every other reader . But his emendations are like- wife often happy and juft ; and his interpretation of obfcure paffages learned and fagacious . Of his notes , I have commonly rejected those , against which the ...
Page xlix
... fenfe . For though much credit is not due to the fidelity , nor any to the judgment of the publishers , yet they who had the copy before their eyes , were more likely to read it right , than we who only read it by imagination . But it ...
... fenfe . For though much credit is not due to the fidelity , nor any to the judgment of the publishers , yet they who had the copy before their eyes , were more likely to read it right , than we who only read it by imagination . But it ...
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... fenfe as well as learning . It is not certain that any one of his plays was published by himself . During the time of his employment in the theatre , several of his pieces were printed separately in quarto . What makes me think that ...
... fenfe as well as learning . It is not certain that any one of his plays was published by himself . During the time of his employment in the theatre , several of his pieces were printed separately in quarto . What makes me think that ...
Page xcv
... fenfe , as he phrafes its for he who tampers with an author whom he does not understand , must do it at the expence of his fubject .. I have made it evident throughout my remarks , that he has frequently in- flicted a wound where he ...
... fenfe , as he phrafes its for he who tampers with an author whom he does not understand , must do it at the expence of his fubject .. I have made it evident throughout my remarks , that he has frequently in- flicted a wound where he ...
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