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... passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty curst , And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst , it is not in our power to have recourse to any esta- blished laws of speech ; but we must remark how 18 THE PLAN OF.
... passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty curst , And in the loaden vineyard dies for thirst , it is not in our power to have recourse to any esta- blished laws of speech ; but we must remark how 18 THE PLAN OF.
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... passage . She loaths the wat'ry glass wherein she gaz'd , And shuns it still , although for thirst she dye . When the construction of a word is explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phrase- ology , through those ...
... passage . She loaths the wat'ry glass wherein she gaz'd , And shuns it still , although for thirst she dye . When the construction of a word is explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phrase- ology , through those ...
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... passages I have yet spared , which may relieve the labour of verbal searches , and inter- sperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology . The examples , thus mutilated , are no longer to be considered as ...
... passages I have yet spared , which may relieve the labour of verbal searches , and inter- sperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology . The examples , thus mutilated , are no longer to be considered as ...
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... passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a definition of a term , or such an explanation as is equivalent to a definition , I have placed his authority as a supplement to my own , without regard to ...
... passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a definition of a term , or such an explanation as is equivalent to a definition , I have placed his authority as a supplement to my own , without regard to ...
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... passage clear and determinate : the word , how often soever repeated , appears with new associates and in different combinations , and every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language . When words ...
... passage clear and determinate : the word , how often soever repeated , appears with new associates and in different combinations , and every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language . When words ...
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Página 140 - 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...
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 136 - ... find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Página 88 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Página 66 - ... be perfect, since while it is hastening to publication, some words are budding, and some falling away; that a whole life cannot be spent upon syntax and etymology, and that even a whole life would not be sufficient; that he, whose design includes whatever language can express, must often speak of what he does not understand...
Página 149 - He no sooner begins to move, than \ he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they 1 are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by ! sudden frigidity. - - , A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures : it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Página 139 - 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 87 - Than wishest should be undone. 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 37 - I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Página 169 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.