The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Miscellaneous piecesW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... continued , when it conveys an offensive idea , or recalled again into the mouths of mankind , when it has once become unfamiliar by disuse , and unpleasing by unfamiliarity ? There is another cause of alteration more prevalent than any ...
... continued , when it conveys an offensive idea , or recalled again into the mouths of mankind , when it has once become unfamiliar by disuse , and unpleasing by unfamiliarity ? There is another cause of alteration more prevalent than any ...
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... continued to hover in the twilight . In the time of queen Elizabeth was the re- markable trial of the witches of Warbois , whose convic- tion is still commemorated in an annual sermon at Hunt- ingdon . But in the reign of king James ...
... continued to hover in the twilight . In the time of queen Elizabeth was the re- markable trial of the witches of Warbois , whose convic- tion is still commemorated in an annual sermon at Hunt- ingdon . But in the reign of king James ...
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... continued in manu- script no other transcribers were likely to be so little qualified for their task as those who copied for the stage , at a time when the lower ranks of the people were univer- sally illiterate : no other editions were ...
... continued in manu- script no other transcribers were likely to be so little qualified for their task as those who copied for the stage , at a time when the lower ranks of the people were univer- sally illiterate : no other editions were ...
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... continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expe- dients , are willing to hope from posterity what the ...
... continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expe- dients , are willing to hope from posterity what the ...
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... continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long ...
... continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what peculiarities of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please long ...
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Página 67 - 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.
Página 72 - 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.
Página 152 - 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. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption ; let him preserve his comprehension of the...
Página 117 - It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment which he cannot well express and will not reject; he struggles with it a while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it.
Página 114 - The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right. But there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
Página 108 - 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.
Página 56 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Página 90 - 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.
Página 73 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Página 106 - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find.