Philological tracts, &cF. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the harmony of the moderns may be more permanent .. A new pronunciation will make almost a new speech ; and therefore , since one great end of this ...
... sentiments regret the loss of their numbers , it is surely time to provide that the harmony of the moderns may be more permanent .. A new pronunciation will make almost a new speech ; and therefore , since one great end of this ...
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... sentiments or doc- trine of their authors ; the word for the sake of which they are inserted , with all its appendant clauses , has been carefully preserved ; but it may sometimes happen , by hasty detruncation , that the general ...
... sentiments or doc- trine of their authors ; the word for the sake of which they are inserted , with all its appendant clauses , has been carefully preserved ; but it may sometimes happen , by hasty detruncation , that the general ...
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... sentiments , by shewing how one author copied the thoughts and diction of another : such quotations are indeed little more than repetitions , which might justly be cen- sured , did they not gratify the mind , by affording a kind of ...
... sentiments , by shewing how one author copied the thoughts and diction of another : such quotations are indeed little more than repetitions , which might justly be cen- sured , did they not gratify the mind , by affording a kind of ...
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... sentiment to its original source , and therefore , though the term enemy of man applied to the devil is in itself natural and obvious , yet some may be pleased with being informed , that Shakespeare probably borrowed it from the first ...
... sentiment to its original source , and therefore , though the term enemy of man applied to the devil is in itself natural and obvious , yet some may be pleased with being informed , that Shakespeare probably borrowed it from the first ...
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... sentiment than they could conveniently convey , and that rapidity of imagination which might hurry him to a second thought before he had fully explain- ed the first . But my opinion is , that very few of his lines were difficult to his ...
... sentiment than they could conveniently convey , and that rapidity of imagination which might hurry him to a second thought before he had fully explain- ed the first . But my opinion is , that very few of his lines were difficult to his ...
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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.