The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, المجلد 2Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... pleasing hope , that , as it was low , it likewise would be safe . I was drawn forward with the pro- spect of employment , which , though not splendid , would be useful ; and which , though it could not make my life envied , would keep ...
... pleasing hope , that , as it was low , it likewise would be safe . I was drawn forward with the pro- spect of employment , which , though not splendid , would be useful ; and which , though it could not make my life envied , would keep ...
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... pleasing part of nature will be excluded , and many beautiful epithets be unex- plained . If only those which are less known are to be mentioned , who shall fix the limits of the reader's learning ? The importance of such explications ...
... pleasing part of nature will be excluded , and many beautiful epithets be unex- plained . If only those which are less known are to be mentioned , who shall fix the limits of the reader's learning ? The importance of such explications ...
الصفحة 51
... pleasing or useful in English literature , and reduce my transcripts very often to clusters of words , in which scarcely any meaning is retained ; thus to the weariness of copying , I was condenmed to add the vexation of expunging ...
... pleasing or useful in English literature , and reduce my transcripts very often to clusters of words , in which scarcely any meaning is retained ; thus to the weariness of copying , I was condenmed to add the vexation of expunging ...
الصفحة 63
... pleasing by unfamiliarity ? There is another cause of alteration more pre- valent than any other , which yet in the present state of the world cannot be obviated . A mixture of ' two languages will produce a third distinct from both ...
... pleasing by unfamiliarity ? There is another cause of alteration more pre- valent than any other , which yet in the present state of the world cannot be obviated . A mixture of ' two languages will produce a third distinct from both ...
الصفحة 142
... pleasing melan- choly be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome le- vity , yet let it be considered likewise , that melan- choly is often not pleasing , and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that dif- ferent ...
... pleasing melan- choly be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome le- vity , yet let it be considered likewise , that melan- choly is often not pleasing , and that the disturbance of one man may be the relief of another ; that dif- ferent ...
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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.