Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volumen2T. Davies, 1774 - 375 páginas |
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Samuel Johnson Thomas Davies. because the Word eke was the ufual Refuge of our old Writers , when they wanted a Syllable . And buxom , which means only obedient , is now made , in familiar Phrases , to ftand for wanton ; because in an ...
Samuel Johnson Thomas Davies. because the Word eke was the ufual Refuge of our old Writers , when they wanted a Syllable . And buxom , which means only obedient , is now made , in familiar Phrases , to ftand for wanton ; because in an ...
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... because it paffed to us not from the Latin integer , but from the French entier . Of many Words it is difficult to fay whether they were immediately received from the Latin or the French ; fince at the Time when we had Dominions in ...
... because it paffed to us not from the Latin integer , but from the French entier . Of many Words it is difficult to fay whether they were immediately received from the Latin or the French ; fince at the Time when we had Dominions in ...
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... because I fuppofe he imagined it derived immediately from the Latin ; and fome Words , fuch as dependant , dependent ; Depend- ance , Dependence , vary their final Syllable , as one or other Language is prefent to the Writer . In this ...
... because I fuppofe he imagined it derived immediately from the Latin ; and fome Words , fuch as dependant , dependent ; Depend- ance , Dependence , vary their final Syllable , as one or other Language is prefent to the Writer . In this ...
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... because Life is a Drama , and a Drama is a Dream ; and who declares with a Tone of Defiance , that no Man can fail to derive Moan from por , monos , who confiders that Grief naturally loves to be alone * . * That I may not appear to ...
... because Life is a Drama , and a Drama is a Dream ; and who declares with a Tone of Defiance , that no Man can fail to derive Moan from por , monos , who confiders that Grief naturally loves to be alone * . * That I may not appear to ...
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... because they were unneceflary or exuberant ; but have re- ceived thofe which by different Writers have been differently formed ; as vifcid , and Pifcidity ; viscous , and Vifcofity . Compounded or double Words I have feldom noted ...
... because they were unneceflary or exuberant ; but have re- ceived thofe which by different Writers have been differently formed ; as vifcid , and Pifcidity ; viscous , and Vifcofity . Compounded or double Words I have feldom noted ...
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Página 62 - 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 282 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 37 - ... admitting among the additions of later times, only such as may supply real deficiencies, such as are readily adopted by the genius of our tongue, and incorporate easily with our native idioms.
Página 113 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. 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.
Página 86 - There is, however, proof enough that he was a very diligent reader, nor was our language then so indigent of books, but that he might very liberally indulge his curiosity without excursion into foreign literature.
Página 32 - To explain requires the use of terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained, and such terms cannot always be found; for as nothing can be proved but by supposing something intuitively known and evident without proof, so nothing can be defined but by the use of words too plain to admit a definition.
Página 71 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 77 - 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 99 - The opinions prevalent in one age, as truths above the reach of controversy, are confuted and rejected in another, and rise again to reception in remoter times. Thus the human mind is kept in motion without progress.
Página 282 - 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...