The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 2Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... regard to ap- pellatives , or the names of species . It seems of no great use to set down the words horse , dog , cat , willow , alder , daisy , rose , and a thousand others , of which it will be hard to give an explanation , not more ...
... regard to ap- pellatives , or the names of species . It seems of no great use to set down the words horse , dog , cat , willow , alder , daisy , rose , and a thousand others , of which it will be hard to give an explanation , not more ...
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... regard has been yet shown in English dictionaries , and in which the grammarians can give little assistance . The syntax of this language is too inconstant to be reduced to rules , and can be only learned by the distinct con- sideration ...
... regard has been yet shown in English dictionaries , and in which the grammarians can give little assistance . The syntax of this language is too inconstant to be reduced to rules , and can be only learned by the distinct con- sideration ...
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... regard to the interpretation , many other questions have required consideration . It was some time doubted whether it be necessary to explain the things implied by particular words ; as under the term baronet , whether , instead of this ...
... regard to the interpretation , many other questions have required consideration . It was some time doubted whether it be necessary to explain the things implied by particular words ; as under the term baronet , whether , instead of this ...
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... such impurities as might be found in them , that their authority might not contribute , at any distant time , to the depravation of the language . With regard to questions of purity or propriety , I With 26 THE PLAN OF.
... such impurities as might be found in them , that their authority might not contribute , at any distant time , to the depravation of the language . With regard to questions of purity or propriety , I With 26 THE PLAN OF.
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With An Essay on His Life and Genius Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. With regard to questions of purity or propriety , I ... regard to this design , a question may arise by what authority the authorities authorities are selected , it is ...
With An Essay on His Life and Genius Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy. With regard to questions of purity or propriety , I ... regard to this design , a question may arise by what authority the authorities authorities are selected , it is ...
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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.