The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Offor, 1818 - 402 páginas |
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Página 162
... easily reaches heights which performance never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her fol- lower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay ...
... easily reaches heights which performance never will attain : and when she has mounted the summit of perfection , derides her fol- lower , who dies in the pursuit . Not therefore to raise expectation , but to repress it , I here lay ...
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... easily reduced to rules . Thus there is no antecedent reason for difference of accent in the two words dolorous and sonorous ; yet of the one Milton gives the sound in this line , He pass'd o'er many a region dolorous ; and that of the ...
... easily reduced to rules . Thus there is no antecedent reason for difference of accent in the two words dolorous and sonorous ; yet of the one Milton gives the sound in this line , He pass'd o'er many a region dolorous ; and that of the ...
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... others more certain and extensive , but is generally superfluous in English ety- mologies . When the word is easily deduced from a VOL . I. Q Saxon original , I shall not often inquire further , AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 169.
... others more certain and extensive , but is generally superfluous in English ety- mologies . When the word is easily deduced from a VOL . I. Q Saxon original , I shall not often inquire further , AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 169.
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... easily regret an at- tempt which has procured me the honour of appearing thus publickly , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON . PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY . It is the fate 180 THE PLAN ...
... easily regret an at- tempt which has procured me the honour of appearing thus publickly , MY LORD , Your Lordship's most obedient , and most humble servant , SAM . JOHNSON . PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY . It is the fate 180 THE PLAN ...
Página 185
... easily excused than superfluity . In the investigation both of the orthography and sig- nification of words , their Etymology was necessarily to be considered , and they were therefore to be divided into primitives and derivatives . A ...
... easily excused than superfluity . In the investigation both of the orthography and sig- nification of words , their Etymology was necessarily to be considered , and they were therefore to be divided into primitives and derivatives . A ...
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Página 16 - The march begins in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay; — Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Página 313 - 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 297 - 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 19 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Página 205 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Página 20 - For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat.
Página 16 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride? How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Página 181 - Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries, whom mankind have considered not as the pupil but the slave of science, the pioneer of literature, doomed only to remove rubbish and clear obstructions from the paths through which learning and genius press forward to conquest and glory, without bestowing a smile on the humble drudge that facilitates their progress. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach, and even this negative recompense...
Página 215 - ... influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity. Characters thus ample and general were not easily discriminated and preserved, yet perhaps no poet ever kept his personages more distinct from each other.
Página 220 - ... is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. 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.