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... mind . It is to be remarked , that many words written alike are differently pronounced , as flow and brow : which may be thus registered , flow , woe ; brow , now ; or of which the exemplification may be gene- rally given by a distich ...
... mind . It is to be remarked , that many words written alike are differently pronounced , as flow and brow : which may be thus registered , flow , woe ; brow , now ; or of which the exemplification may be gene- rally given by a distich ...
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... mind them , that no terrestrial greatness is more than an aggregate of little things ; and to incul- cate , after the Arabian proverb , that drops , added to drops , constitute the ocean . There remains yet to be considered the distri ...
... mind them , that no terrestrial greatness is more than an aggregate of little things ; and to incul- cate , after the Arabian proverb , that drops , added to drops , constitute the ocean . There remains yet to be considered the distri ...
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... minds , the words by which such notions are conveyed , or such things denoted , will be am- biguous and perplexed . And such is the fate of hapless lexicography , that not only dark- ness , but light , impedes and distresses it ; things ...
... minds , the words by which such notions are conveyed , or such things denoted , will be am- biguous and perplexed . And such is the fate of hapless lexicography , that not only dark- ness , but light , impedes and distresses it ; things ...
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... it is impos- sible to mark the point of contact . Ideas of the same race , though not exactly alike , are sometimes so little different , that no words can express the dissimilitude , though the mind easily perceives it 48 PREFACE TO THE.
... it is impos- sible to mark the point of contact . Ideas of the same race , though not exactly alike , are sometimes so little different , that no words can express the dissimilitude , though the mind easily perceives it 48 PREFACE TO THE.
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Samuel Johnson. express the dissimilitude , though the mind easily perceives it when they are exhibited together ; and sometimes there is such a confusion of ac- ceptations , that discernment is wearied , and dis- tinction puzzled , and ...
Samuel Johnson. express the dissimilitude , though the mind easily perceives it when they are exhibited together ; and sometimes there is such a confusion of ac- ceptations , that discernment is wearied , and dis- tinction puzzled , and ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.