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As among the works of nature no man can properly call a river deep or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains and many rivers ; fo in the productions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been ...
As among the works of nature no man can properly call a river deep or a mountain high , without the knowledge of many mountains and many rivers ; fo in the productions of genius , nothing can be ftiled excellent till it has been ...
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Nothing can please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful ...
Nothing can please many , and please long , but just representations of general nature . Particular manners can be known to few , and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied . The irregular combinations of fanciful ...
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1 poffible , its effects would be probably fuch as he has affigned ; and it may be faid , that he has not only fhewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed .
1 poffible , its effects would be probably fuch as he has affigned ; and it may be faid , that he has not only fhewn human nature as it acts in real exigences , but as it would be found in trials , to which it cannot be expofed .
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Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous or critical sense either tragedies or comedies , but compofitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real state of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow ...
Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous or critical sense either tragedies or comedies , but compofitions of a diftinct kind ; exhibiting the real state of fublunary nature , which partakes of good and evil , joy and forrow ...
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That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticifm will be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal open from criticifm to nature . The end of writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to inftruct by pleasing .
That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticifm will be readily allowed ; but there is always an appeal open from criticifm to nature . The end of writing is to inftruct ; the end of poetry is to inftruct by pleasing .
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| Titel | The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, Band 1 The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Eight Volumes, William Shakespeare |
| Autor/in | William Shakespeare |
| Herausgeber | Samuel Johnson |
| Illustriert von | George Vertue |
| Mitwirkende | Henry Woodfall, John Rivington, J. and R. Tonson |
| Verlag | J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington ... [and 9 others], 1765 |
| Original von | Harvard University |
| Digitalisiert | 8. Aug. 2008 |
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