The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Nichols and Son, 1801 |
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... better to mention more particularly the creation , privileges , and rank of baronets ; and whe- ther , under the word barometer , instead of being sa- tisfied with obferving that it is an inftrument to dif cover the weight of the air ...
... better to mention more particularly the creation , privileges , and rank of baronets ; and whe- ther , under the word barometer , instead of being sa- tisfied with obferving that it is an inftrument to dif cover the weight of the air ...
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... better . ' There is in conftancy and stability a general and lafting advantage , which will always overbalance the flow improvements of gradual correction . Much lefs ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral ...
... better . ' There is in conftancy and stability a general and lafting advantage , which will always overbalance the flow improvements of gradual correction . Much lefs ought our written language to comply with the corruptions of oral ...
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... better understood , as they are confidered in greater variety of structures and relations . All the interpretations of words are not written with the fame fkill , or the fame happiness : things equally eafy in themselves , are not all ...
... better understood , as they are confidered in greater variety of structures and relations . All the interpretations of words are not written with the fame fkill , or the fame happiness : things equally eafy in themselves , are not all ...
الصفحة 68
... death of him who produced them ; but they are better se- cured from corruption than these unfortunate compo- fitions . fitions . They fubfift in a single copy , written [ 68 ] Propofals for printing the Works of Shakespeare.
... death of him who produced them ; but they are better se- cured from corruption than these unfortunate compo- fitions . fitions . They fubfift in a single copy , written [ 68 ] Propofals for printing the Works of Shakespeare.
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... better for himself . Where all the books are evidently vitiated , and collation can give no affiftance , then begins the tafk of critical fagacity : and fome changes may well be admitted in a text never fettled by the au- thor , and fo ...
... better for himself . Where all the books are evidently vitiated , and collation can give no affiftance , then begins the tafk of critical fagacity : and fome changes may well be admitted in a text never fettled by the au- thor , and fo ...
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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.