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29. oldal
... excellence , but that he may stop with honour at the second or third : though therefore my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the praise of having endeavoured well ; nor shall ...
... excellence , but that he may stop with honour at the second or third : though therefore my performance should fall below the excellence of other dictionaries , I may obtain , at least , the praise of having endeavoured well ; nor shall ...
52. oldal
... excellence excited my veneration , when my memory supplied me , from late books , with an example that was wanting , or when my heart , in the tenderness of friendship , solicited admission for a favourite name . So far have I been from ...
... excellence excited my veneration , when my memory supplied me , from late books , with an example that was wanting , or when my heart , in the tenderness of friendship , solicited admission for a favourite name . So far have I been from ...
70. oldal
... excellence of Shakespeare , that he drew his scenes from nature , and from life . He copied the manners of the world then passing before him , and has more allusions than other poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ...
... excellence of Shakespeare , that he drew his scenes from nature , and from life . He copied the manners of the world then passing before him , and has more allusions than other poets to the traditions and superstition of the vulgar ...
77. oldal
... excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon ...
... excellence are paid to antiquity , is a complaint likely to be always continued by those , who , being able to add nothing to truth , hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox ; or those , who , being forced by disappointment upon ...
78. oldal
... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obser- vation and experience , no other test can be applied than ...
... excellence is not absolute and definite , but gradual and compara- tive ; to works not raised upon principles demonstra- tive and scientifick , but appealing wholly to obser- vation and experience , no other test can be applied than ...
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442. oldal - 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. Out, out, brief candle!
417. oldal - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
411. oldal - This castle hath a pleasant seat ; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.
67. oldal - ... 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...
68. oldal - 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.
46. oldal - In hope of giving longevity to that which its own nature forbids to be immortal, I have devoted this book, the labour of years, to the honour of my country, that we may no longer yield the palm of philology without a contest to the nations of the continent.
79. oldal - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation. If the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of 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.
62. oldal - 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.
48. oldal - ... 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...
410. oldal - 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.