The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, المجلد 2Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... habit or quality than action , they take the nature of adjectives : as a thinking man , a man of prudence ; a pacing horse , a horse that can pace : these I have ventured to call participial adjec tives . But neither are these always ...
... habit or quality than action , they take the nature of adjectives : as a thinking man , a man of prudence ; a pacing horse , a horse that can pace : these I have ventured to call participial adjec tives . But neither are these always ...
الصفحة 145
... habits are only superficial dyes , bright and pleasing for a little while , yet soon fading to a dim tinct , without any remains of former lustre ; but the dis- criminations of true passion are the colours of na- ture they pervade the ...
... habits are only superficial dyes , bright and pleasing for a little while , yet soon fading to a dim tinct , without any remains of former lustre ; but the dis- criminations of true passion are the colours of na- ture they pervade the ...
الصفحة 185
... habit ; I have therefore shown so much as may enable the candidate of criticism to discover the rest . To the end of most plays I have added short strictures , containing a general censure of faults , or praise of excellence ; in which ...
... habit ; I have therefore shown so much as may enable the candidate of criticism to discover the rest . To the end of most plays I have added short strictures , containing a general censure of faults , or praise of excellence ; in which ...
الصفحة 200
... habit of trans- eription ? It is therefore likely that there was then a story of Vincentio duke of Vienna , different from that of Maximine emperor of the Romans , of Of this play the light or comick part is very 200 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ...
... habit of trans- eription ? It is therefore likely that there was then a story of Vincentio duke of Vienna , different from that of Maximine emperor of the Romans , of Of this play the light or comick part is very 200 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ...
الصفحة 310
... habits , and depraving his sentiments . He is instructed in these points by three fables , two of which were of the highest authority in the ancient Pagan world . But at this he is not to rest ; for if he expects to be wise and happy ...
... habits , and depraving his sentiments . He is instructed in these points by three fables , two of which were of the highest authority in the ancient Pagan world . But at this he is not to rest ; for if he expects to be wise and happy ...
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الصفحة 104 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a Summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
الصفحة 150 - ... up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
الصفحة 92 - 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.
الصفحة 85 - 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...
الصفحة 98 - On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
الصفحة 66 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
الصفحة 193 - 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.
الصفحة 154 - Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
الصفحة 141 - Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition. Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow and sometimes levity and laughter.
الصفحة 150 - What he does best, he soon ceases to do. He is not long soft and pathetic without some idle conceit or contemptible equivocation. He no sooner begins to move, than he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity.