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... conjectures , which to readers unacquainted with this kind of study , cannot but appear improbable and capricious . But it may be reasonably imagined , that what is so much in the power of men as lan- guage , will very often be ...
... conjectures , which to readers unacquainted with this kind of study , cannot but appear improbable and capricious . But it may be reasonably imagined , that what is so much in the power of men as lan- guage , will very often be ...
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... conjecture , the scantiness of knowledge , the fallibility of memory , and the unsteadiness of attention , can compare the causes of error with the means of avoiding it , and the extent of art with the capacity of man ; and whatever be ...
... conjecture , the scantiness of knowledge , the fallibility of memory , and the unsteadiness of attention , can compare the causes of error with the means of avoiding it , and the extent of art with the capacity of man ; and whatever be ...
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... conjectures . Those who have been per- suaded to think well of my design , will require that it should fix our language , and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without ...
... conjectures . Those who have been per- suaded to think well of my design , will require that it should fix our language , and put a stop to those alterations which time and chance have hitherto been suffered to make in it without ...
Side 84
... but finding no satisfaction from his own thoughts , he grows impatient of reflection , and resolves to wait the close without harassing himself with conjectures , -Come what come may . But to shorten the pain 84 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
... but finding no satisfaction from his own thoughts , he grows impatient of reflection , and resolves to wait the close without harassing himself with conjectures , -Come what come may . But to shorten the pain 84 OBSERVATIONS ON THE.
Side 85
... conjecture is supported by the passage in the letter to his lady , in which he says , They referr'd me to the coming on of time with Hail King that shall be . NOTE IX . SCENE VI . Malcolm . NOTHING in his life Became him like the ...
... conjecture is supported by the passage in the letter to his lady , in which he says , They referr'd me to the coming on of time with Hail King that shall be . NOTE IX . SCENE VI . Malcolm . NOTHING in his life Became him like the ...
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Side 140 - Shakespeare's plays are not, in the rigorous and critical sense, either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind, exhibiting 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...
Side 67 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Side 136 - ... find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Side 88 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty...
Side 66 - ... 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 149 - He no sooner begins to move, than \ he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they 1 are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by ! sudden frigidity. - - , A quibble is to Shakespeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures : it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
Side 139 - 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.
Side 87 - 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.
Side 37 - I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
Side 169 - 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.