Philological tracts, &cF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... its beginning from truth and nature , or from accident and prejudice ; whether it be decreed by the authority of reason , or the tyranny of ignorance , that of all the candidates for B 2 The Plan of an English Dictionary.
... its beginning from truth and nature , or from accident and prejudice ; whether it be decreed by the authority of reason , or the tyranny of ignorance , that of all the candidates for B 2 The Plan of an English Dictionary.
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... nature will be excluded , and many beautiful epithets be unexplained . If only those which are less known are to be mentioned , who shall fix the limits of the reader's learning ? The importance of such expli- cations appears from the ...
... nature will be excluded , and many beautiful epithets be unexplained . If only those which are less known are to be mentioned , who shall fix the limits of the reader's learning ? The importance of such expli- cations appears from the ...
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... passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty curst , And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst , it is not in our power to have recourse to any esta- blished laws of speech ; but we must remark how 18 THE PLAN OF.
... passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty curst , And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst , it is not in our power to have recourse to any esta- blished laws of speech ; but we must remark how 18 THE PLAN OF.
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... natural and primitive signification ; as , To arrive , to reach the shore in a voyage : he arrived at a safe harbour . Then to give its consequential meaning , to arrive , to reach any place , whether by land or sea ; as , he arrived at ...
... natural and primitive signification ; as , To arrive , to reach the shore in a voyage : he arrived at a safe harbour . Then to give its consequential meaning , to arrive , to reach any place , whether by land or sea ; as , he arrived at ...
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... natural and figura- tive senses , it will be proper to subjoin the poetical sense of each word , where it differs from that which is in common use ; as wanton , applied to any thing of which the motion is irregular without terror ; as ...
... natural and figura- tive senses , it will be proper to subjoin the poetical sense of each word , where it differs from that which is in common use ; as wanton , applied to any thing of which the motion is irregular without terror ; as ...
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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.