The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Nichols and Son, 1801 |
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... easy to determine by what rule of diftinction the words of this Dictionary were to be chofen . The chief intent of it is to preferve the purity , and afcertain the meaning of our English idiom ; and this feems to require nothing more ...
... easy to determine by what rule of diftinction the words of this Dictionary were to be chofen . The chief intent of it is to preferve the purity , and afcertain the meaning of our English idiom ; and this feems to require nothing more ...
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... easy to defpife , and laughter it is easy to repay . I shall not be be folicitous what is thought of my work by fuch 24 THE PLAN OF.
... easy to defpife , and laughter it is easy to repay . I shall not be be folicitous what is thought of my work by fuch 24 THE PLAN OF.
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... easy for fome other adventurer to proceed farther , to reduce them wholly to fubjection , and fettle them under laws . We are taught by the great Roman orator , that every man should propofe to himself the highest de- gree of excellence ...
... easy for fome other adventurer to proceed farther , to reduce them wholly to fubjection , and fettle them under laws . We are taught by the great Roman orator , that every man should propofe to himself the highest de- gree of excellence ...
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... easily pass into each other , or fuch as may both be referred to one ge- neral idea . The etymology , fo far as it is yet known , was eafily found in the volumes , where it is particularly and profeffedly delivered ; and , by proper ...
... easily pass into each other , or fuch as may both be referred to one ge- neral idea . The etymology , fo far as it is yet known , was eafily found in the volumes , where it is particularly and profeffedly delivered ; and , by proper ...
الصفحة 48
... easily perceives it when they are exhibited together ; and fometimes there is fuch a confufion of acceptations , that difcernment is wearied , and diftinction puzzled , and perfeverance herself hurries to an end , by crowd- ing together ...
... easily perceives it when they are exhibited together ; and fometimes there is fuch a confufion of acceptations , that difcernment is wearied , and diftinction puzzled , and perfeverance herself hurries to an end , by crowd- ing together ...
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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.