The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.Hastings, Etheridge and Bliss, 1809 |
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... genius of our tongue . I have attempted few al- terations , and among those few , perhaps the greater part is from the modern to the ancient practice ; and I hope I may be allowed to recommend to those whose thoughts have been perhaps ...
... genius of our tongue . I have attempted few al- terations , and among those few , perhaps the greater part is from the modern to the ancient practice ; and I hope I may be allowed to recommend to those whose thoughts have been perhaps ...
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... genius of our tongue , and incorporate easily with our native idioms . But as every language has a time of rudeness antece- dent to perfection , as well as of false refinement and de- clension , I have been cautious lest my zeal for ...
... genius of our tongue , and incorporate easily with our native idioms . But as every language has a time of rudeness antece- dent to perfection , as well as of false refinement and de- clension , I have been cautious lest my zeal for ...
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... genius , the rest are absolutely below a serious notice . " Warburton's Preface to Shakspeare . E. NOTE I. ACT I. SCENE I. ENTER THREE WITCHES . IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer , it is always ...
... genius , the rest are absolutely below a serious notice . " Warburton's Preface to Shakspeare . E. NOTE I. ACT I. SCENE I. ENTER THREE WITCHES . IN order to make a true estimate of the abilities and merit of a writer , it is always ...
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... genius is rebuk'd ; ( 1 ) as it is said Anthony's was by Cesar . He chid the sisters , When first they put the name of king upon me , And bade them speak to him ; then prophet like , They hail'd him father to a line of kings . Upon my ...
... genius is rebuk'd ; ( 1 ) as it is said Anthony's was by Cesar . He chid the sisters , When first they put the name of king upon me , And bade them speak to him ; then prophet like , They hail'd him father to a line of kings . Upon my ...
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... genius is rebuk'd . He chid the sisters . ( 2 ) .......... The common enemy of man . It is always an entertainment to an inquisitive reader , to trace a sentiment to its original source , and therefore , though the term enemy of man ...
... genius is rebuk'd . He chid the sisters . ( 2 ) .......... The common enemy of man . It is always an entertainment to an inquisitive reader , to trace a sentiment to its original source , and therefore , though the term enemy of man ...
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Página 113 - 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 142 - ... 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 130 - The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
Página 135 - ... 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 88 - 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 141 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings, indeed, a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
Página 78 - If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature ? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical *, Shakes so my single state of man, that function Is smother'd in surmise, and nothing is, But what is not.
Página 134 - 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...
Página 189 - 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 136 - 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.