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... pleasure in departing from custom , and to think alteration desirable for its own sake ; and the reformation of our orthography , which these wri- ters have attempted , should not pass without its due honours , but that I suppose they ...
... pleasure in departing from custom , and to think alteration desirable for its own sake ; and the reformation of our orthography , which these wri- ters have attempted , should not pass without its due honours , but that I suppose they ...
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... pleasure or instruction , by convey , ing some elegance of language , or some precept of prudence , or piety . It has been asked , on some occasions , who shall judge the judges ? And since , with regard to this design , a question may ...
... pleasure or instruction , by convey , ing some elegance of language , or some precept of prudence , or piety . It has been asked , on some occasions , who shall judge the judges ? And since , with regard to this design , a question may ...
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... pleasure on my book , however defective , and deli- ver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well . That it will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself : a few wild blunders , and risible ...
... pleasure on my book , however defective , and deli- ver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well . That it will immediately become popular I have not promised to myself : a few wild blunders , and risible ...
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... our poetical language was yet unformed , when the meaning of our phrases was yet in fluctuation , when words were adopted at Brusse pleasure from the neighbouring languages , and while the Saxon 70 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING.
... our poetical language was yet unformed , when the meaning of our phrases was yet in fluctuation , when words were adopted at Brusse pleasure from the neighbouring languages , and while the Saxon 70 PROPOSALS FOR PRINTING.
Side 71
Samuel Johnson. pleasure from the neighbouring languages , and while the Saxon was still visibly mingled in our diction . The reader is therefore embarrassed at once with dead and with foreign languages , with obsoleteness and innovation ...
Samuel Johnson. pleasure from the neighbouring languages , and while the Saxon was still visibly mingled in our diction . The reader is therefore embarrassed at once with dead and with foreign languages , with obsoleteness and innovation ...
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Side 442 - 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. Out, out, brief candle!
Side 417 - 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.
Side 411 - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.
Side 67 - ... 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 reveler is hasting to his wine, and the mourner burying his friend...
Side 68 - 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.
Side 46 - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology without a contest to the nations of the continent.
Side 79 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation. If the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Side 62 - Shakespeare is, above all writers, — at least above all modern writers, — the poet of nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Side 48 - ... 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...
Side 410 - 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.