The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1803 |
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Page 207
... paffages : and though it be neither pru- dence to cenfure or commend what one does not understand ; yet if a man must do one when he plays the critick , the latter is the more ridiculous office ; and by that Shakspeare suffers most ...
... paffages : and though it be neither pru- dence to cenfure or commend what one does not understand ; yet if a man must do one when he plays the critick , the latter is the more ridiculous office ; and by that Shakspeare suffers most ...
Page 212
... paffages right , by comparing my author with his originals ; for , as I have fre- quently observed , he was a close and accurate co- pier wherever his fable was founded on history . Wherever the author's sense is clear and dif ...
... paffages right , by comparing my author with his originals ; for , as I have fre- quently observed , he was a close and accurate co- pier wherever his fable was founded on history . Wherever the author's sense is clear and dif ...
Page 286
... paffages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obscured by obsolete phraseology , or by the writer's unskilfulness and affectation . To alter is more easy than to explain , and temerity is a ...
... paffages perhaps beyond recovery , but have brought others into fufpicion , which are only obscured by obsolete phraseology , or by the writer's unskilfulness and affectation . To alter is more easy than to explain , and temerity is a ...
Page 298
... paffages which appeared to me likely to ob- struct the greater number of readers , and thought it my duty to facilitate their passage . It is im- possible for an expositor not to write too little for fome , and too much for others . He ...
... paffages which appeared to me likely to ob- struct the greater number of readers , and thought it my duty to facilitate their passage . It is im- possible for an expositor not to write too little for fome , and too much for others . He ...
Page 309
... paffages are cleared by notes , but the general effect of the work is weakened . The mind is refrigerated by interruption ; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject ; the reader is weary , he fufpects not why , and at last ...
... paffages are cleared by notes , but the general effect of the work is weakened . The mind is refrigerated by interruption ; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject ; the reader is weary , he fufpects not why , and at last ...
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