The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1809 |
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... whether it be de- creed by the authority of reason , or the tyranny of igno- rance , that of all the candidates for literary praise , the . I VOL . II . unhappy lexicographer holds the lowest place , neither vanity nor.
... whether it be de- creed by the authority of reason , or the tyranny of igno- rance , that of all the candidates for literary praise , the . I VOL . II . unhappy lexicographer holds the lowest place , neither vanity nor.
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... reason to expect that their actions would be celebrated by posterity , and that the eloquence which they promoted would be em- ployed in their praise . But I considered such acts of beneficence as prodigies , recorded rather to raise ...
... reason to expect that their actions would be celebrated by posterity , and that the eloquence which they promoted would be em- ployed in their praise . But I considered such acts of beneficence as prodigies , recorded rather to raise ...
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... reason to complain if he does not find it . • It seems necessary to the completion of a dictionary designed not merely for critics , but for popular use , that it should comprise , in some degree , the peculiar words of every profession ...
... reason to complain if he does not find it . • It seems necessary to the completion of a dictionary designed not merely for critics , but for popular use , that it should comprise , in some degree , the peculiar words of every profession ...
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... reason , or between the equiponderant authorities of writers alike eminent for judgment and accuracy . The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation . It has been de- manded , on one hand , that ...
... reason , or between the equiponderant authorities of writers alike eminent for judgment and accuracy . The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation . It has been de- manded , on one hand , that ...
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... reason sufficient to balance the inconvenience of change ; and such reasons I do not ex- pect often to find . All change is of itself an evil , which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage ; and as inconstancy is in every ...
... reason sufficient to balance the inconvenience of change ; and such reasons I do not ex- pect often to find . All change is of itself an evil , which ought not to be hazarded but for evident advantage ; and as inconstancy is in every ...
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الصفحة 113 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
الصفحة 142 - ... he carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
الصفحة 130 - 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 135 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination...
الصفحة 88 - 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 141 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings, indeed, a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
الصفحة 78 - If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical *, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is, But what is not.
الصفحة 134 - This, therefore, is the praise of 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...
الصفحة 189 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid, his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
الصفحة 136 - That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.