A Review of Doctor Johnson's New Edition of Shakespeare: In which the Ignorance, Or Inattention, of that Editor is Exposed, and the Poet Defended from the Persecution of His CommentatorsJ. Payne, 1765 - 133页 |
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第iv页
... Reviewer begs leave to exprefs his motives for writing in the words of an ingenious author , who stood exactly in the fame pre- dicament . I thought it a piece of juftice due to the memory of Shakespeare , to the reputation of let- ters ...
... Reviewer begs leave to exprefs his motives for writing in the words of an ingenious author , who stood exactly in the fame pre- dicament . I thought it a piece of juftice due to the memory of Shakespeare , to the reputation of let- ters ...
第v页
... Reviewer is well aware that Dr. Johnfon's felf- fufficiency may fuggeft a more finifter view . For , he doubts not , that gentleman thinks of himself , what he has faid of Dr. Warburton , that he has ' a name fufficient to confer ...
... Reviewer is well aware that Dr. Johnfon's felf- fufficiency may fuggeft a more finifter view . For , he doubts not , that gentleman thinks of himself , what he has faid of Dr. Warburton , that he has ' a name fufficient to confer ...
第vi页
... Reviewer is reduced to the neceffity of apparently boafting , that , in this refpect , he does not lie under the disadvantage of being exactly in the fame fituation with the author of the Canons of Criticifm ; who frankly confeffes ...
... Reviewer is reduced to the neceffity of apparently boafting , that , in this refpect , he does not lie under the disadvantage of being exactly in the fame fituation with the author of the Canons of Criticifm ; who frankly confeffes ...
第vii页
... Reviewer con- feffes indeed he should have been glad to have had , on this occafion , lefs to do with the commentary of the reverend gentleman laft mentioned . And this , he hath reason to think , would have been the case , had not Dr ...
... Reviewer con- feffes indeed he should have been glad to have had , on this occafion , lefs to do with the commentary of the reverend gentleman laft mentioned . And this , he hath reason to think , would have been the case , had not Dr ...
第viii页
... Reviewer hath always understood it to be an established law in the republic of letters , wifely calculated to reftrain the exceffes of infult , petulance and ill- nature , too apt to fhoot up in the fplenetic re- • ceffes of folitary ...
... Reviewer hath always understood it to be an established law in the republic of letters , wifely calculated to reftrain the exceffes of infult , petulance and ill- nature , too apt to fhoot up in the fplenetic re- • ceffes of folitary ...
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