The works of Samuel Johnson, Bind 91824 |
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Side 28
... use be carefully supplied , curiosity must sometimes bear its disappointments . This , my Lord , is my idea of an English Dic- tionary ; a dictionary by which the pronun- ciation of our language may be fixed , and its 28 THE PLAN OF.
... use be carefully supplied , curiosity must sometimes bear its disappointments . This , my Lord , is my idea of an English Dic- tionary ; a dictionary by which the pronun- ciation of our language may be fixed , and its 28 THE PLAN OF.
Side 44
... curiosity are here satisfied , and the frame of our language and modes of our combination amply discovered . Of some forms of composition , such as that by which re is prefixed to note repetition , and un to signify contrariety or ...
... curiosity are here satisfied , and the frame of our language and modes of our combination amply discovered . Of some forms of composition , such as that by which re is prefixed to note repetition , and un to signify contrariety or ...
Side 66
... world is little solicitous to know whence proceed the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it , that the English Dictionary " was written with little assistance of 66 PREFACE TO THE.
... world is little solicitous to know whence proceed the faults of that which it condemns ; yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it , that the English Dictionary " was written with little assistance of 66 PREFACE TO THE.
Side 80
... be supposed to dissemble his knowledge of the condition of Cawdor , because he inquires with all the ardour of curiosity , and the vehemence of sudden asto- nishment ; and because nobody is present but Banquo , 80 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
... be supposed to dissemble his knowledge of the condition of Cawdor , because he inquires with all the ardour of curiosity , and the vehemence of sudden asto- nishment ; and because nobody is present but Banquo , 80 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
Side 123
... curiosity and discernment , by leaving them less to discover ; and at last shew the opinion of the critick , without the reasons on which it was founded , and without affording any light by which it may be examined . The editor , though ...
... curiosity and discernment , by leaving them less to discover ; and at last shew the opinion of the critick , without the reasons on which it was founded , and without affording any light by which it may be examined . The editor , though ...
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Side 110 - 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.
Side 127 - 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.
Side 144 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his •walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Side 134 - ... poetry. This reasoning is so specious, that it is received as true even by those who in daily experience feel it to be false. The interchanges of mingled scenes seldom fail to produce the intended vicissitudes of passion. Fiction cannot move so much, but that tHe attention may be easily transferred ; and though it must be allowed that pleasing melancholy be sometimes interrupted by unwelcome levity, yet let it be considered likewise, that melancholy is often not pleasing, and that the disturbance...
Side 81 - 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.
Side 135 - When Shakespeare's plan is understood, most of the criticisms of Rymer and Voltaire vanish away. The play of Hamlet is opened without impropriety by two sentinels; lago bellows at Brabantio's window without injury to the scheme of the play, though in terms which a modern audience would not easily endure; the character of Polonius is seasonable and useful, and the gravediggers themselves may be heard with applause.
Side 127 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied.
Side 166 - ... comprehension of thought, and such his copiousness of language. Out of many readings possible, he must be able to select that which best suits with the state, opinions, and modes of language prevailing in every age, and with his author's particular cast of thought, and turn of expression. Such most be his knowledge, and such his taste. Conjectural criticism demands more than humanity possesses, and he that exercises it with most praise, has very frequent need of indulgence. Let us now be told...
Side 145 - Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation ; if the spectator can be once persuaded, that his old acquaintance are Alexander and...
Side 162 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence, but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion.