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... perhaps , the exact and pure idea of a grammatical dictionary ; but in lexicography , as in other arts , naked science is too de- licate for the purposes of life . The value of a work must be estimated by its use ; it is not enough that ...
... perhaps , the exact and pure idea of a grammatical dictionary ; but in lexicography , as in other arts , naked science is too de- licate for the purposes of life . The value of a work must be estimated by its use ; it is not enough that ...
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... perhaps , I may at last have reason to say , after one of the augmenters of Fure- tier , that my book is more learned than its author . In explaining the general and popular language , it seems necessary to sort the several senses of ...
... perhaps , I may at last have reason to say , after one of the augmenters of Fure- tier , that my book is more learned than its author . In explaining the general and popular language , it seems necessary to sort the several senses of ...
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... perhaps , of any other in our licentious language , is so established as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers . I shall , therefore , since the rules of style , like those of law , arise from precedents often repeated ...
... perhaps , of any other in our licentious language , is so established as not to be often reversed by the correctest writers . I shall , therefore , since the rules of style , like those of law , arise from precedents often repeated ...
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... perhaps , to correct the language of nations by books of grammar , and amend their manners by discourses of morality , may be tasks equally difficult , yet , as it is unavoidable to wish , it is natural likewise to hope , that your ...
... perhaps , to correct the language of nations by books of grammar , and amend their manners by discourses of morality , may be tasks equally difficult , yet , as it is unavoidable to wish , it is natural likewise to hope , that your ...
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... perhaps , coeval with it , from others , which the igno- rance or negligence of later writers has produced . Every language has its anomalies , which , though inconvenient , and in themselves once unnecessary , must be tolerated among ...
... perhaps , coeval with it , from others , which the igno- rance or negligence of later writers has produced . Every language has its anomalies , which , though inconvenient , and in themselves once unnecessary , must be tolerated among ...
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Página 107 - His first defect is that to which mav be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. 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.
Página 97 - 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...
Página 145 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 105 - His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy for the greater part by incident and action. His tragedy seems to be skill, his comedy to be instinct.
Página 48 - 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 113 - The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players.
Página 82 - 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 65 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Página 102 - Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination ; and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveller is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...
Página 107 - When he found himself near the end of his work and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He therefore remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.