Philological tracts, &cF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... regard to appel- latives , or the names of species . It seems of no great use to set down the words horse , dog , cat , wil- low , alder , daisy , rose , and a thousand others , of which it will be hard to give an explanation , not more ...
... regard to appel- latives , or the names of species . It seems of no great use to set down the words horse , dog , cat , wil- low , alder , daisy , rose , and a thousand others , of which it will be hard to give an explanation , not more ...
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... regard has been yet shewn in English dictionaries , and in which the grammarians can give little assistance . The syntax of this language is too inconstant to be reduced to rules , and can be only learned by the distinct con- sideration ...
... regard has been yet shewn in English dictionaries , and in which the grammarians can give little assistance . The syntax of this language is too inconstant to be reduced to rules , and can be only learned by the distinct con- sideration ...
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... though it be easy to translate the words bright , sweet , salt , bitter , into another language , it is not easy to explain them . With regard to the interpretation , many other questions have C 2 AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 19.
... though it be easy to translate the words bright , sweet , salt , bitter , into another language , it is not easy to explain them . With regard to the interpretation , many other questions have C 2 AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 19.
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Samuel Johnson. With regard to the interpretation , many other questions have required consideration . It was some time doubted whether it be necessary to explain the things implied by particular words ; as under the term baronet ...
Samuel Johnson. With regard to the interpretation , many other questions have required consideration . It was some time doubted whether it be necessary to explain the things implied by particular words ; as under the term baronet ...
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... and correct such impurities as might be found in them , that their authority might not contribute , at any distant time , to the depravation of the language . With regard to questions of purity or propriety , I 26 THE PLAN OF.
... and correct such impurities as might be found in them , that their authority might not contribute , at any distant time , to the depravation of the language . With regard to questions of purity or propriety , I 26 THE PLAN OF.
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140 ページ - 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...
67 ページ - 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.
136 ページ - ... 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.
88 ページ - 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...
66 ページ - ... 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...
149 ページ - 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.
139 ページ - 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.
87 ページ - 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.
37 ページ - 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.
169 ページ - 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.