Philological tracts, &cF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... mean- ing of words , than for their structures or forma- tions ; and the words that most want explanation , are generally terms of art ; which , therefore , expe- rience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind of pompous ...
... mean- ing of words , than for their structures or forma- tions ; and the words that most want explanation , are generally terms of art ; which , therefore , expe- rience has taught my predecessors to spread with a kind of pompous ...
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... means , and be left alone by fol- lowing the crowd . When a question of orthography is dubious , that practice has ... meaning of a word is obscured ; as in farrier , or ferrier , as it was formerly written , from ferrum , or fer ; in ...
... means , and be left alone by fol- lowing the crowd . When a question of orthography is dubious , that practice has ... meaning of a word is obscured ; as in farrier , or ferrier , as it was formerly written , from ferrum , or fer ; in ...
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... means con- stant , but admit of numberless irregularities , which in this Dictionary will be diligently noted . Thus fox makes in the plural foxes , but or makes oxen . Sheep is the same in both numbers . Adjectives are sometimes ...
... means con- stant , but admit of numberless irregularities , which in this Dictionary will be diligently noted . Thus fox makes in the plural foxes , but or makes oxen . Sheep is the same in both numbers . Adjectives are sometimes ...
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... meaning with another ; as , it may be remarked of the word arrive , that , in con- sequence of its original and etymological sense , it cannot be properly applied but to words signifying something desirable : thus we say , a man arrived ...
... meaning with another ; as , it may be remarked of the word arrive , that , in con- sequence of its original and etymological sense , it cannot be properly applied but to words signifying something desirable : thus we say , a man arrived ...
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... meaning ought to be distin- guished from that which is loose and popular ; as in the word perfection , which , though in its philosophi- cal and exact sense it can be of little use among human beings , is often so much degraded from its ...
... meaning ought to be distin- guished from that which is loose and popular ; as in the word perfection , which , though in its philosophi- cal and exact sense it can be of little use among human beings , is often so much degraded from its ...
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الصفحة 140 - Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense, either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind, exhibiting 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 67 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
الصفحة 136 - ... find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
الصفحة 88 - 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 66 - ... be perfect, since while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand...
الصفحة 149 - He no sooner begins to move, than \ he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they 1 are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by ! sudden frigidity. - - , A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures : it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
الصفحة 139 - 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; by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
الصفحة 87 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
الصفحة 37 - I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
الصفحة 169 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.