... powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction... Wit and Wisdom of Samuel Johnson - Page 182by Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 323 pagesFull view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness, and read the commentators. Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...correction or explanation. When his attention is ftrongly engaged, let it difdain alike to turn afide to the name of Theobald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightnefs and obfcurity, through DR. JOHNSON'S PREFACE. 239 integrity and corruption ; let him preferve... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged let it disdain...let him attempt exactness and read the commentators V So too let him who reads the Life of Johnson for the first time read it in one of the Pre-Crokerian... | |
| James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged let it disdain...let him attempt exactness and read the commentators V So too let him who reads the Life of Johnson for the first time read it in one of the Pre-Crokerian... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness, and read the commentators. Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...correction or explanation. When his attention is ftrongly engaged, let it difdain alike to turn afide to the name of Theobald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightnefs and obfcurity, through integrity and corruption ; let him preferve his Gomprehenfion of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...of all his commentators. fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness, and read the commentators. Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...him attempt exactness, and read the commentators. Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain...through integrity and corruption; let him preserve his comprehcusion of'the dialogue and his interest in the fable. And when the pleasures of novelty have... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...read every play from the first scene t» the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. — Let him read on, through brightness and obscurity,...comprehension of the dialogue, and his interest in the fable." But to much the greater and more enlightened part of his readers, (for how few are there comparatively... | |
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