The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Nichols and Son, 1801 |
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الصفحة 21
... sense , it can- not be properly applied but to words fignifying fome- thing defirable : thus we fay , a man arrived at happi- nefs ; but cannot fay , without a mixture of irony , he arrived at mifery . Ground , the earth , generally as ...
... sense , it can- not be properly applied but to words fignifying fome- thing defirable : thus we fay , a man arrived at happi- nefs ; but cannot fay , without a mixture of irony , he arrived at mifery . Ground , the earth , generally as ...
الصفحة 131
... sense . For though much credit is not due to the fidelity , nor any to the judgment of the first publishers , yet they who had the K2 copy ↓ copy before their eyes were more likely to read it PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE . 131.
... sense . For though much credit is not due to the fidelity , nor any to the judgment of the first publishers , yet they who had the K2 copy ↓ copy before their eyes were more likely to read it PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE . 131.
الصفحة 200
... sense , and the functions of mere ani- mal life , would be a far greater crime . We are formed by our Creator capable of acquiring know- ledge , and regulating our conduct by reasonable rules ; it is therefore our duty to cultivate our ...
... sense , and the functions of mere ani- mal life , would be a far greater crime . We are formed by our Creator capable of acquiring know- ledge , and regulating our conduct by reasonable rules ; it is therefore our duty to cultivate our ...
الصفحة 201
... sense . We take what is neceflary to pre- ⚫ ferve health and vigour , but are not to give ourselves < up to pleasures that weaken the attention , and dull ⚫ the understanding . ' And 6 - 6 And the true fenfe of Mr. Pope's CROUSAZ AND ...
... sense . We take what is neceflary to pre- ⚫ ferve health and vigour , but are not to give ourselves < up to pleasures that weaken the attention , and dull ⚫ the understanding . ' And 6 - 6 And the true fenfe of Mr. Pope's CROUSAZ AND ...
الصفحة 211
... sense of their deliverance difpofed them to call Puerto Santo , or the Holy Haven . When they returned with an account of this new ifland , Henry performed a publick act of thanksgiving , and fent them again with feeds and cattle ; and ...
... sense of their deliverance difpofed them to call Puerto Santo , or the Holy Haven . When they returned with an account of this new ifland , Henry performed a publick act of thanksgiving , and fent them again with feeds and cattle ; and ...
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الصفحة 138 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. 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.
الصفحة 83 - 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.
الصفحة 109 - Shakespeare, however favoured by nature, could impart only what he had learned; and as he must increase his ideas, like other mortals, by gradual acquisition, he, like them, grew wiser as he grew older, could display life better, as he knew it more, and instruct with more efficacy, as he was himself more amply instructed.
الصفحة 80 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
الصفحة 64 - I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
الصفحة 79 - The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
الصفحة 22 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
الصفحة 97 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
الصفحة 64 - If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.