The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... Writers not a ufelefs generation 138 Their happiness and infelicity 142 T49 156 PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS . The Plan of an English Dictionary Preface to the English Dictionary 164 193 Propofals for printing the Dramatick Works of William ...
... Writers not a ufelefs generation 138 Their happiness and infelicity 142 T49 156 PHILOLOGICAL TRACTS . The Plan of an English Dictionary Preface to the English Dictionary 164 193 Propofals for printing the Dramatick Works of William ...
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... writer can never fee , and conjectures of which he never can be informed : fome mischief , however , he hopes he has done ; and to have done mischief , is of fome import- ance . He fets his invention to work again , and produces a ...
... writer can never fee , and conjectures of which he never can be informed : fome mischief , however , he hopes he has done ; and to have done mischief , is of fome import- ance . He fets his invention to work again , and produces a ...
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... writer , that England affords a greater variety of cha- racters than the reft of the world . This is afcribed to the liberty prevailing amongst us , which gives every man the privilege of being wife or foolish his own way , and ...
... writer , that England affords a greater variety of cha- racters than the reft of the world . This is afcribed to the liberty prevailing amongst us , which gives every man the privilege of being wife or foolish his own way , and ...
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... writers who have treated of chemiftry before him , are ufelefs to the greater part of ftudents , because they pre - fuppofe their readers to have fuch degrees of fkill as are not often to be found . Into the fame error are all men apt ...
... writers who have treated of chemiftry before him , are ufelefs to the greater part of ftudents , because they pre - fuppofe their readers to have fuch degrees of fkill as are not often to be found . Into the fame error are all men apt ...
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... writers , that with all their pretenfions to genius and difcoveries , they do little more than copy one another ; and that compofitions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty , contain only tedious repetitions of common ...
... writers , that with all their pretenfions to genius and difcoveries , they do little more than copy one another ; and that compofitions obtruded upon the world with the pomp of novelty , contain only tedious repetitions of common ...
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Seite 232 - 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. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Seite 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Seite 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Seite 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Seite 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Seite 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Seite 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Seite 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Seite 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.