The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Miscellaneous piecesW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... note of exclusion , but not of disgrace . The words which are found only in particular books , will be known by the single name of him that has used them ; but such will be omitted , unless either their pro- priety , elegance or force ...
... note of exclusion , but not of disgrace . The words which are found only in particular books , will be known by the single name of him that has used them ; but such will be omitted , unless either their pro- priety , elegance or force ...
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... note of infamy , as they are carefully to be eradicated wherever they are found ; and they occur too frequently , even in the best writers : as in Pope , in endless error hurl'd . ' Tis these that early taint the female soul . In ...
... note of infamy , as they are carefully to be eradicated wherever they are found ; and they occur too frequently , even in the best writers : as in Pope , in endless error hurl'd . ' Tis these that early taint the female soul . In ...
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... note repetition , and un to signify contrariety or privation , all the examples cannot be accumulated , be- cause the use of these particles , if not wholly arbitrary , is so little limited , that they are hourly affixed to new words ...
... note repetition , and un to signify contrariety or privation , all the examples cannot be accumulated , be- cause the use of these particles , if not wholly arbitrary , is so little limited , that they are hourly affixed to new words ...
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... 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 necessary to examine the genius of his age , and the opinions of his contemporaries . A poet , who ...
... 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 necessary to examine the genius of his age , and the opinions of his contemporaries . A poet , who ...
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... NOTE III . If I say sooth , I must report , they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks , So they redoubled strokes upon the foe . Dr. Grey , in his notes on Hudibras , mentions , that Hopkins the noted witch- finder hanged ...
... NOTE III . If I say sooth , I must report , they were As cannons overcharg'd with double cracks , So they redoubled strokes upon the foe . Dr. Grey , in his notes on Hudibras , mentions , that Hopkins the noted witch- finder hanged ...
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Сторінка 67 - 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 152 - Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play, from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators. When his fancy is once on the wing, let it not stoop at correction or explanation. When his attention is strongly engaged, let it disdain alike to turn aside to the name of Theobald and of Pope. Let him read on through brightness and obscurity, through integrity and corruption ; let him preserve his comprehension of the...
Сторінка 117 - It is incident to him to be now and then entangled with an unwieldy sentiment which he cannot well express and will not reject; he struggles with it a while, and if it continues stubborn, comprises it in words such as occur and leaves it to be disentangled and evolved by those who have more leisure to bestow upon it.
Сторінка 114 - 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. But there is a conversation above grossness and below refinement, where propriety resides and where this poet seems to have gathered his comic dialogue.
Сторінка 108 - 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.
Сторінка 56 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 73 - The night has been unruly : where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down : and, as they say, Lamentings heard i...
Сторінка 106 - His characters are not modified by the customs of particular places, unpractised by the rest of the world; by the peculiarities of studies or professions, which can operate but upon small numbers; or by the accidents of transient fashions or temporary opinions: they are the genuine progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply, and observation will always find.