The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... poet of France , by raising the reputation of the attempt , obstruct the reception of the work . I imagine what the world will expect from a scheme , prosecuted under your Lordship's influence ; and I know- that expectation , when her ...
... poet of France , by raising the reputation of the attempt , obstruct the reception of the work . I imagine what the world will expect from a scheme , prosecuted under your Lordship's influence ; and I know- that expectation , when her ...
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... poets ; and since those who study their sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the harmony of the moderns may be more permanent . A new pronunciation will make almost a new speech ; and therefore ...
... poets ; and since those who study their sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the harmony of the moderns may be more permanent . A new pronunciation will make almost a new speech ; and therefore ...
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... poet is suffered to encrease it . When the orthography and pronunciation are adjusted , the etymology or derivation is next to be considered , and the words are to be distinguished according to the different classes , whether simple ...
... poet is suffered to encrease it . When the orthography and pronunciation are adjusted , the etymology or derivation is next to be considered , and the words are to be distinguished according to the different classes , whether simple ...
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... poets . Of antiquated or obsolete words , none will be inserted but such as are to be found in authors who wrote since the accession of Elizabeth , from which we date the golden age of our language ; and of these many might be omitted ...
... poets . Of antiquated or obsolete words , none will be inserted but such as are to be found in authors who wrote since the accession of Elizabeth , from which we date the golden age of our language ; and of these many might be omitted ...
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... poets beautiful descrip- tions . Such is design , while it is yet at a distance from execution . When the time called upon me to range this accumulation of elegance and wisdom into an alphabetical series , I soon discovered that the ...
... poets beautiful descrip- tions . Such is design , while it is yet at a distance from execution . When the time called upon me to range this accumulation of elegance and wisdom into an alphabetical series , I soon discovered that the ...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 6 Samuel Johnson,Arthur Murphy No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 464 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 452 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
Page 433 - 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 ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Page 139 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 90 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Page 439 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 423 - Tiger : But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
Page 137 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the 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.
Page 83 - 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 79 - The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished ; his works support no opinion with arguments, nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity, nor gratify malignity ; but are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained...