The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. |
من داخل الكتاب
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 ...
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 ...
ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
لم نعثر على أي مراجعات في الأماكن المعتادة.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
able action advantage appeared attempt attention believe called cause character common considered continued copies criticism desire dictionary discovered easily easy editions effect endeavoured English equally excellence exhibit expected expression followed force France French frequently give given greater Habit hands happiness Henry honour hope human ideas imagination importance interest Italy kind king knowledge known labour language laws learning less letters likewise living manner means mentioned mind nature necessary never NOTE observed occasion once opinion original particular pass passage passions performed perhaps play poet Pope practice praise present preserved produced proper reader reason regard remarkable says scenes seems sense Shakespeare shew sometimes success suffered sufficient supplied supposed things thought tion trade true truth writers written
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 464 - 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 452 - It will have blood, they say ; blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.
الصفحة 433 - 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 ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
الصفحة 139 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
الصفحة 90 - 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.
الصفحة 439 - 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 423 - Tiger : But in a sieve I'll thither sail, And, like a rat without a tail, I'll do, I'll do, and I'll do.
الصفحة 137 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him, that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
الصفحة 83 - 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 79 - The effects of favour and competition are at an end ; the tradition of his friendships and his enmities has perished ; his works support no opinion with arguments, nor supply any faction with invectives ; they can neither indulge vanity, nor gratify malignity ; but are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained...