The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: Philological tracts. Political essays. Miscellaneous essaysT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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... Harleian Library Page 3 31 68 77 141 -- 171 Effay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces 184 Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini - 195 198 View of the Controverfy between Croufaz and War- burton Preliminary Difcourfe to ...
... Harleian Library Page 3 31 68 77 141 -- 171 Effay on the Origin and Importance of Fugitive Pieces 184 Account of the Life of Benvenuto Cellini - 195 198 View of the Controverfy between Croufaz and War- burton Preliminary Difcourfe to ...
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... , and the preceding incidents been occafionally related , there had been little wanting to a drama of the moft exact and fcrupulous regularity . AN ACCOUNT OF THE HARLEIAN LIBRARY . T O folicit 170 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS , & c .
... , and the preceding incidents been occafionally related , there had been little wanting to a drama of the moft exact and fcrupulous regularity . AN ACCOUNT OF THE HARLEIAN LIBRARY . T O folicit 170 GENERAL OBSERVATIONS , & c .
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Samuel Johnson. AN ACCOUNT OF THE HARLEIAN LIBRARY . T O folicit a fubfcription for a catalogue of books expofed to fale , is an attempt for which fome apology cannot but be neceffary ; for few would wil- lingly contribute to the expence ...
Samuel Johnson. AN ACCOUNT OF THE HARLEIAN LIBRARY . T O folicit a fubfcription for a catalogue of books expofed to fale , is an attempt for which fome apology cannot but be neceffary ; for few would wil- lingly contribute to the expence ...
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... library , to prefer books and manuscripts to equipage and luxury , and to for- fake noise and diverfion for the converfation of the learned , and the fatisfaction of extenfive knowledge , we are very far from ... HARLEIAN LIBRARY . 173.
... library , to prefer books and manuscripts to equipage and luxury , and to for- fake noise and diverfion for the converfation of the learned , and the fatisfaction of extenfive knowledge , we are very far from ... HARLEIAN LIBRARY . 173.
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... book will have fome claim to his regard , from which he may receive informations of the labours of his pre- deceffors , fuch as a catalogue of the Harleian library will copioufly afford him . Nor is the ufe of catalogues of lefs ...
... book will have fome claim to his regard , from which he may receive informations of the labours of his pre- deceffors , fuch as a catalogue of the Harleian library will copioufly afford him . Nor is the ufe of catalogues of lefs ...
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Side 111 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge or more rules of practical prudence can be collected than he alone has given to his country.
Side 64 - If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.
Side 86 - It is objected that by this change of scenes the passions are interrupted in their progression, and that the principal event, being not advanced by a due gradation of preparatory incidents, wants at last the power to move which constitutes the perfection of dramatic poetry.
Side 131 - I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
Side 91 - 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.
Side 88 - 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 133 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of 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.
Side 134 - Particular passages are cleared by notes, but the general effect of the work is weakened. The mind is refrigerated by interruption ; the thoughts are diverted from the principal subject; the reader is weary, he suspects not why; and at last throws away the book which he has too diligently studied.
Side 97 - 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.
Side 125 - ... attention, its bulk is to be enlarged by rage and exclamation: That to which all would be indifferent in its original state, may attract notice when the fate of a name is appended to it.