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Page 207
... play than in many others where it is omitted . The great defect of this play is the emptiness and narrow- ness of the last act , which a very little diligence might have easily avoided . Henry VI , Part I IV.v. Enter Talbot and his son ...
... play than in many others where it is omitted . The great defect of this play is the emptiness and narrow- ness of the last act , which a very little diligence might have easily avoided . Henry VI , Part I IV.v. Enter Talbot and his son ...
Page 218
... play was posterior to the ballad , rather than the ballad to the play , is , that the ballad has nothing of Shakespeare's nocturnal tempest , which is too striking to have been omitted , and that it follows the chronicle ; it has the ...
... play was posterior to the ballad , rather than the ballad to the play , is , that the ballad has nothing of Shakespeare's nocturnal tempest , which is too striking to have been omitted , and that it follows the chronicle ; it has the ...
Page 219
... play , and restored it to the stage , tells us in his preface , from a theatrical tradition I suppose , which in his time might be of sufficient autho- rity , that this play was touched in different parts by Shakespeare , but written by ...
... play , and restored it to the stage , tells us in his preface , from a theatrical tradition I suppose , which in his time might be of sufficient autho- rity , that this play was touched in different parts by Shakespeare , but written by ...
Contents
JOHNSON ON SHAKESPEARE | 43 |
Note on the Text and Acknowledgment | 58 |
EARLY PERIODICAL CRITICISM | 59 |
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action admiration Aeneid ancient appears attention beauties blank verse censure character comedy common composition considered Cowley criticism death delight dialogue diction dignity diligence drama Dryden easily easy edition effect elegance endeavoured English English poetry Essay excellence exhibit expression eyes F. R. Leavis Falstaff fancy faults genius give harmony heaven hexameter Hudibras human Iliad images imagination imitation Johnson judgment kind King knowledge labour language learning lines literary literature lived Lycidas Macbeth Metaphysical poets Milton mind moral nature never numbers observed opinion original Othello Paradise Lost passages passions pastoral perhaps play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope praise produced reader reason remarks rhyme Samson Samson Agonistes Samuel Johnson says scarcely scenes seems sense sentiments Shakespeare sometimes sound supposed syllables thee things thou thought tion tragedy translation truth versification Virgil virtue Warburton words writer written