The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen2Nichols, 1816 |
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Página 63
... continued , when it conveys an offensive idea , or recalled again into the mouths of mankind , when it has once become un- familiar by disuse , and unpleasing by unfamiliarity ? There is another cause of alteration more pre- valent than ...
... continued , when it conveys an offensive idea , or recalled again into the mouths of mankind , when it has once become un- familiar by disuse , and unpleasing by unfamiliarity ? There is another cause of alteration more pre- valent than ...
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... continued in manuscript : no other tran- scribers 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 ...
... continued in manuscript : no other tran- scribers 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 ...
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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 peculiari- ties of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please ...
... continued , may yet be only the approbation of prejudice or fashion ; it is proper to inquire , by what peculiari- ties of excellence Shakespeare has gained and kept the favour of his countrymen . Nothing can please many , and please ...
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... continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of composition is the same ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is ...
... continued through many plays ; as it had no plan , it had no limits . Through all these denominations of the drama , Shakespeare's mode of composition is the same ; an interchange of seriousness and merriment , by which the mind is ...
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Página 464 - 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 139 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Página 81 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 85 - That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
Página 89 - ... 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.
Página 60 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Página 67 - 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 85 - ... 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 reveler is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend...
Página 31 - IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward.
Página 97 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.