The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Nichols and Son, 1801 |
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... seems neceffary to the completion of a diction- ary defigned not merely for criticks , but for popular ufe , that it should comprife , in fome degree , the peculiar words of every profeffion ; that the terms of war and navigation fhould ...
... seems neceffary to the completion of a diction- ary defigned not merely for criticks , but for popular ufe , that it should comprife , in fome degree , the peculiar words of every profeffion ; that the terms of war and navigation fhould ...
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... seem remote . These are the principal caufes of the obfcurity of Shakespeare ; to which might be added the fulnefs of idea , which might fometimes load his words with more fentiment than they could conveniently convey , and that ...
... seem remote . These are the principal caufes of the obfcurity of Shakespeare ; to which might be added the fulnefs of idea , which might fometimes load his words with more fentiment than they could conveniently convey , and that ...
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... seem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved , without con- fidering that time has fometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour paft paft than prefent excellence ; and the mind contem ...
... seem to admire indifcriminately whatever has been long preferved , without con- fidering that time has fometimes co - operated with chance ; all perhaps are more willing to honour paft paft than prefent excellence ; and the mind contem ...
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... seems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick fcenes there is always fomething wanting , but his comedy often furpasses expectation or defire . His comedy pleafes by the thoughts ...
... seems to repofe , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature . In his tragick fcenes there is always fomething wanting , but his comedy often furpasses expectation or defire . His comedy pleafes by the thoughts ...
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Samuel Johnson. refinement , where propriety refides , and where this poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue , He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote , and among his ...
Samuel Johnson. refinement , where propriety refides , and where this poet seems to have gathered his comick dialogue , He is therefore more agreeable to the ears of the prefent age than any other author equally remote , and among his ...
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Seite 138 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. 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.
Seite 83 - 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.
Seite 109 - Shakespeare, however favoured by nature, could impart only what he had learned; and as he must increase his ideas, like other mortals, by gradual acquisition, he, like them, grew wiser as he grew older, could display life better, as he knew it more, and instruct with more efficacy, as he was himself more amply instructed.
Seite 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 invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 64 - I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology, without a contest, to the nations of the continent.
Seite 79 - The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
Seite 22 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
Seite 97 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Seite 64 - If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.