Philological tracts, &cF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... preserve the purity , and ascertain the meaning of our English idiom ; and this seems to require nothing more than that our language be considered , so far as it is our own ; that the words and phrases used in the general intercourse of ...
... preserve the purity , and ascertain the meaning of our English idiom ; and this seems to require nothing more than that our language be considered , so far as it is our own ; that the words and phrases used in the general intercourse of ...
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... the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and its attainment facilitated ; by which its purity may be preserved , its use ascertained , and its duration lengthened . * And though , perhaps , to correct the language of 28 THE PLAN OF.
... the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and its attainment facilitated ; by which its purity may be preserved , its use ascertained , and its duration lengthened . * And though , perhaps , to correct the language of 28 THE PLAN OF.
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... preservation of ancient , and the improvement of modern writers ; that it may pro- mote the reformation of those translators , who , for want of understanding the characteristical differ- ence of tongues , have formed a chaotic dialect ...
... preservation of ancient , and the improvement of modern writers ; that it may pro- mote the reformation of those translators , who , for want of understanding the characteristical differ- ence of tongues , have formed a chaotic dialect ...
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... preserve so much caution through so long a work , as not often to sink into negligence , or to obtain so much knowledge of all its parts as not frequently to fail by ignorance . I expect that sometimes the desire of accuracy will urge ...
... preserve so much caution through so long a work , as not often to sink into negligence , or to obtain so much knowledge of all its parts as not frequently to fail by ignorance . I expect that sometimes the desire of accuracy will urge ...
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... preserved in systematical works ; though sometimes at the expence of particular propriety . Among other derivatives I have been careful to insert and elucidate the anomalous plurals of nouns and preterites of verbs , which in the ...
... preserved in systematical works ; though sometimes at the expence of particular propriety . Among other derivatives I have been careful to insert and elucidate the anomalous plurals of nouns and preterites of verbs , which in the ...
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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.