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... sufficient to attract your favour . But I consider such acts of How far this unexpected distinction can be rated among the happy incidents of life , I am not yet able to determine . Its first effect has been to make me anxious , lest it ...
... sufficient to attract your favour . But I consider such acts of How far this unexpected distinction can be rated among the happy incidents of life , I am not yet able to determine . Its first effect has been to make me anxious , lest it ...
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... sufficient to balance the inconvenience of change ; and such reasons I do not expect often to find . All change is of itself an evil , which ought not to be hazarded but for evident . advantage ; and as incon- stancy is in every case a ...
... sufficient to balance the inconvenience of change ; and such reasons I do not expect often to find . All change is of itself an evil , which ought not to be hazarded but for evident . advantage ; and as incon- stancy is in every case a ...
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... sufficient for common use ; and since , without some attention to such de- mands , the Dictionary cannot become generally valuable , I have determined to consult the best writers for explanations real as well as verbal ; and perhaps I ...
... sufficient for common use ; and since , without some attention to such de- mands , the Dictionary cannot become generally valuable , I have determined to consult the best writers for explanations real as well as verbal ; and perhaps I ...
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... sufficient , in etymological enquiries , if the senses of kindred words be found such as may easily pass into each other , or such as may both be referred to one general idea . The etymology , so far as it is yet known , was easily ...
... sufficient , in etymological enquiries , if the senses of kindred words be found such as may easily pass into each other , or such as may both be referred to one general idea . The etymology , so far as it is yet known , was easily ...
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... sufficient that a word is found , unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently de- termined by the tract and tenour of the sentence ; such passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a ...
... sufficient that a word is found , unless it be so combined as that its meaning is apparently de- termined by the tract and tenour of the sentence ; such passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a ...
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Page 140 - Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense, either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind, exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination...
Page 67 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 136 - ... find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 88 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Page 66 - ... be perfect, since while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand...
Page 149 - He no sooner begins to move, than \ he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they 1 are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by ! sudden frigidity. - - , A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures : it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Page 139 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstasies by reading human sentiments in human language; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Page 87 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 37 - I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Page 169 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.