The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 2Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... expected , that with the ex- planation of the one the herald should be satisfied , or the philosopher with that of the other ; but since it will be required by common readers , that the ex- plications should be sufficient for common use ...
... expected , that with the ex- planation of the one the herald should be satisfied , or the philosopher with that of the other ; but since it will be required by common readers , that the ex- plications should be sufficient for common use ...
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... expected ; and if use be carefully sup- plied , curiosity must sometimes bear its disappoint- ments . This , my Lord , is my idea of an English Dic- tionary ; a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and ...
... expected ; and if use be carefully sup- plied , curiosity must sometimes bear its disappoint- ments . This , my Lord , is my idea of an English Dic- tionary ; a dictionary by which the pronunciation of our language may be fixed , and ...
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... expected in a task , which no man , however learned or saga- cious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , be- cause I do not understand them ; these might have been omitted very often with little ...
... expected in a task , which no man , however learned or saga- cious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , be- cause I do not understand them ; these might have been omitted very often with little ...
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... expected every search into those neglected mines to reward my labour , and the triumph with which I should display my acquisitions to mankind . When I had thus enquired into the original of words , I resolved to show likewise my ...
... expected every search into those neglected mines to reward my labour , and the triumph with which I should display my acquisitions to mankind . When I had thus enquired into the original of words , I resolved to show likewise my ...
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... expected , that the stones which form the dome of a temple , should be squared and polished like the diamond of a ring . Of the event of this work , for which , having laboured it with so much applicatiou , I cannot but have some degree ...
... expected , that the stones which form the dome of a temple , should be squared and polished like the diamond of a ring . Of the event of this work , for which , having laboured it with so much applicatiou , I cannot but have some degree ...
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Page 104 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a Summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Page 150 - ... up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety, and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.
Page 92 - 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.
Page 85 - 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...
Page 98 - On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
Page 66 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page 193 - 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.
Page 154 - Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Page 141 - Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition. Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow and sometimes levity and laughter.
Page 150 - What he does best, he soon ceases to do. He is not long soft and pathetic without some idle conceit or contemptible equivocation. He no sooner begins to move, than he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity.