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... rule of distinction the words of this dictionary were to be chosen . The chief in- tent of it is to preserve the purity , and ascertain the mean- ing of our English idiom ; and this seems to require no- thing more than that our language ...
... rule of distinction the words of this dictionary were to be chosen . The chief in- tent of it is to preserve the purity , and ascertain the mean- ing of our English idiom ; and this seems to require no- thing more than that our language ...
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... rule by which we may decide between custom and reason , or between the equi- ponderant authorities of writers alike eminent for judg- ment and accuracy . The great orthographical contest has long subsisted be- tween etymology and ...
... rule by which we may decide between custom and reason , or between the equi- ponderant authorities of writers alike eminent for judg- ment and accuracy . The great orthographical contest has long subsisted be- tween etymology and ...
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... rule ; the etymologist was often forced to spell with the people ; and the advocate for the authority of pronunciation found it sometimes deviating so capriciously from the received use of writing , that he was constrained to comply ...
... rule ; the etymologist was often forced to spell with the people ; and the advocate for the authority of pronunciation found it sometimes deviating so capriciously from the received use of writing , that he was constrained to comply ...
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... rules for the pronunciation of former ages , has made us wholly ignorant of the metrical art of our ancient poets ; and since those who study their sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the har ...
... rules for the pronunciation of former ages , has made us wholly ignorant of the metrical art of our ancient poets ; and since those who study their sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the har ...
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... rules they are governed , and how they are in- flected through their various terminations . The termina- tions of the English are few , but those few have hitherto remained unregarded by the writers of our dictionaries . Our ...
... rules they are governed , and how they are in- flected through their various terminations . The termina- tions of the English are few , but those few have hitherto remained unregarded by the writers of our dictionaries . Our ...
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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 67 - 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 67 - 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 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 153 - 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 174 - Cordelia to perish in a just cause, contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles.
Página 73 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Página 110 - 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 440 - My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me. If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
Página 124 - Every man's performances, to be rightly estimated, must be compared with the state of the age in which he lived, and with his own particular opportunities...