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Samuel Johnson. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK Printed by Nichols , Son , and Bentley , Red Lion Passage , Fleet Street , London . CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS . THE.
Samuel Johnson. LENOX LIBRARY NEW YORK Printed by Nichols , Son , and Bentley , Red Lion Passage , Fleet Street , London . CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME . PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS . THE.
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... be taught by ge- neral rules , but by special precedents ; and in exa- mining whether Addison has been with justice accused of a solecism in this passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty 18 THE PLAN OF.
... be taught by ge- neral rules , but by special precedents ; and in exa- mining whether Addison has been with justice accused of a solecism in this passage , The poor inhabitant Starves in the midst of nature's bounty 18 THE PLAN OF.
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... passage . She loaths the wat'ry glass wherein she gaz'd , And shups it still , although for thirst she dye . When the construction of a word is explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phrase- ology , through those ...
... passage . She loaths the wat'ry glass wherein she gaz'd , And shups it still , although for thirst she dye . When the construction of a word is explained , it is necessary to pursue it through its train of phrase- ology , through those ...
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... passages I have yet spared , which may relieve the labour of verbal searches , and intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology . The examples , thus mutilated , are no longer to be considered as conveying ...
... passages I have yet spared , which may relieve the labour of verbal searches , and intersperse with verdure and flowers the dusty desarts of barren philology . The examples , thus mutilated , are no longer to be considered as conveying ...
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... passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a definition of a term , or such an explanation as is equivalent to a definition , I have placed his authority as a supplement to my own , without regard to ...
... passages I have therefore chosen , and when it happened that any author gave a definition of a term , or such an explanation as is equivalent to a definition , I have placed his authority as a supplement to my own , without regard to ...
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Page 464 - 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.
Page 139 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
Page 81 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
Page 85 - That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
Page 89 - ... is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right.
Page 60 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Page 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.
Page 85 - ... 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, and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend...
Page 31 - IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward.
Page 97 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.