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 - 72페이지 |
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... characters , and paraphrase his fentiments . 4 The reverence due to writings that have long sub- fifted arifes therefore not from any credulous confi- dence in the fuperior wifdom of paft ages , or gloomy perfuafion of the degeneracy of ...
... characters , and paraphrase his fentiments . 4 The reverence due to writings that have long sub- fifted arifes therefore not from any credulous confi- dence in the fuperior wifdom of paft ages , or gloomy perfuafion of the degeneracy of ...
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... characters are not modified by the cuftoms of particular places , unpractifed by the reft of the world ; by the peculiarities of ftudies or profeffions , which can operate but upon fmall numbers ; or by the accidents of tranfient ...
... characters are not modified by the cuftoms of particular places , unpractifed by the reft of the world ; by the peculiarities of ftudies or profeffions , which can operate but upon fmall numbers ; or by the accidents of tranfient ...
ix 페이지
... character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of design that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical ...
... character is too often an individual ; in thofe of Shakespeare it is commonly a fpecies . It is from this wide extenfion of design that fo much inftruction is derived . It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical ...
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... characters as were never feen , conver- fing in a language which was never heard , upon to- picks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this authour is often fo evidently determined by the incident ...
... characters as were never feen , conver- fing in a language which was never heard , upon to- picks which will never arife in the commerce of mankind . But the dialogue of this authour is often fo evidently determined by the incident ...
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... characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from ...
... characters , by fabulous and unexampled excellence or depravity , as the writers . of barbarous romances invigorated the reader by a giant and a dwarf ; and he that fhould form his ex- pectations of human affairs from the play , or from ...
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xxiii 페이지 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
xxviii 페이지 - It is credited, whenever it moves, as a just picture of a real original ; as representing to the auditor what he would himself feel, if he were to do or suffer what is there feigned to be suffered or to be done. The reflection that strikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed.
xliv 페이지 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence ; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.
xxiii 페이지 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
v 페이지 - THAT praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; 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 which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by...
lxx 페이지 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
xxvi 페이지 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
xvii 페이지 - Shakespeare engaged in dramatick poetry with the world open before him ; the rules of the ancients were yet known to few; the publick judgment was unformed; he had no example of such fame as might force him upon imitation, nor criticks of such authority as might restrain his extravagance: he therefore indulged his natural disposition, and his disposition, as Rymer has remarked, led him to comedy.
xx 페이지 - ... in the virtuous a disapprobation of the wicked. He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
viii 페이지 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirrour of manners and of life. His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they...