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Página 141
That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed ; but
there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to
instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may
...
That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed ; but
there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to
instruct ; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing. That the mingled drama may
...
Página 173
Conjectural criticism demands more than humanity possesses, and he that
exercises it with most praise, has very frequent need of indulgence. Let us now
be told no more of the dull duty of an editor. Confidence is the common
consequence of ...
Conjectural criticism demands more than humanity possesses, and he that
exercises it with most praise, has very frequent need of indulgence. Let us now
be told no more of the dull duty of an editor. Confidence is the common
consequence of ...
Página 184
Some initiation is however necessary; of all skill, part is infused by precept, and
part is obtained by habit ; I have therefore shewn so much as may enable the
candidate for criticism to discover the rest. To the end of most plays I have added
...
Some initiation is however necessary; of all skill, part is infused by precept, and
part is obtained by habit ; I have therefore shewn so much as may enable the
candidate for criticism to discover the rest. To the end of most plays I have added
...
Página 186
... middle way between presumption and timidity. Such criticism I have attempted
to practise, and where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed have
endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to 186 PREFACE TO
SHAKESPEAKE.
... middle way between presumption and timidity. Such criticism I have attempted
to practise, and where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed have
endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to 186 PREFACE TO
SHAKESPEAKE.
Página 320
Though criticism has been cultivated in every age of learning, by men of great
abilities and extensive knowledge, till the rules of writing are become rather
burthensome than instructive to the mind ; though almost every species of
composition ...
Though criticism has been cultivated in every age of learning, by men of great
abilities and extensive knowledge, till the rules of writing are become rather
burthensome than instructive to the mind ; though almost every species of
composition ...
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