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... success of this work , he would not be dis- pleased that I have undertaken it . It will be proper that the quotations be ranged according to the ages of their authors ; and it will afford an agreeable amusement , if to the words and ...
... success of this work , he would not be dis- pleased that I have undertaken it . It will be proper that the quotations be ranged according to the ages of their authors ; and it will afford an agreeable amusement , if to the words and ...
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... success would have been without applause , and diligence without reward . Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered , not as the pupil , but the slave of science , the pioneer of literature ...
... success would have been without applause , and diligence without reward . Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered , not as the pupil , but the slave of science , the pioneer of literature ...
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... successful- ly taught by modes of spelling fanciful and errone- ous : I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to for- get that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the instrument ...
... successful- ly taught by modes of spelling fanciful and errone- ous : I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to for- get that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the instrument ...
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... success ; such at least as can be expected in a task , which no man , however learned or sagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been ...
... success ; such at least as can be expected in a task , which no man , however learned or sagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been ...
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... successful , and re- collection or information come too late for use . That many terms of art and manufacture are omitted , must be frankly acknowledged ; but for this defect I may boldly allege that it was unavoid- able ; I could not ...
... successful , and re- collection or information come too late for use . That many terms of art and manufacture are omitted , must be frankly acknowledged ; but for this defect I may boldly allege that it was unavoid- able ; I could not ...
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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...