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Pagina 6
... writers , be selected , without including the terms of particular professions ; since , with the arts to which they relate , they are generally derived from other nations , and are very often the same in all the languages of this part ...
... writers , be selected , without including the terms of particular professions ; since , with the arts to which they relate , they are generally derived from other nations , and are very often the same in all the languages of this part ...
Pagina 10
... writers alike eminent for judgment and accuracy . The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation . It has been demanded , on one hand , that men should write as they speak ; but as it has been ...
... writers alike eminent for judgment and accuracy . The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation . It has been demanded , on one hand , that men should write as they speak ; but as it has been ...
Pagina 11
... writers have at- tempted , should not pass without its due honours , but that I suppose they hold singularity its own re- ward , or may dread the fascination of lavish praise . The present usage of spelling , where the present usage can ...
... writers have at- tempted , should not pass without its due honours , but that I suppose they hold singularity its own re- ward , or may dread the fascination of lavish praise . The present usage of spelling , where the present usage can ...
Pagina 15
... writers of our glossaries ; writers who deserve often the highest praise , both of judgment and industry , and may expect at least to be be mentioned with honour by me , whom they have AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 15.
... writers of our glossaries ; writers who deserve often the highest praise , both of judgment and industry , and may expect at least to be be mentioned with honour by me , whom they have AN ENGLISH DICTIONARY . 15.
Pagina 16
... writers of our dictionaries . Our substantives are de- clined only by the plural termination , our adjectives admit no variation but in the degrees of comparison , and our verbs are conjugated by auxiliary words , and are only changed ...
... writers of our dictionaries . Our substantives are de- clined only by the plural termination , our adjectives admit no variation but in the degrees of comparison , and our verbs are conjugated by auxiliary words , and are only changed ...
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Pagina 104 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a Summer's cloud, Without our special wonder? You make me strange Even to the disposition that I owe, When now I think you can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine are blanch'd with fear.
Pagina 150 - ... up before him, and he leaves his work unfinished. 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.
Pagina 92 - 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.
Pagina 85 - 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...
Pagina 98 - On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.
Pagina 66 - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Pagina 193 - Notes are often necessary, but they are necessary evils. Let him that is yet unacquainted with the powers of Shakespeare, and who desires to feel the highest pleasure that the drama can give, read every play from the first scene to the last, with utter negligence of all his commentators.
Pagina 154 - Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination ; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions, and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Pagina 141 - Shakespeare has united the powers of exciting laughter and sorrow not only in one mind but in one composition. Almost all his plays are divided between serious and ludicrous characters, and, in the successive evolutions of the design, sometimes produce seriousness and sorrow and sometimes levity and laughter.
Pagina 150 - What he does best, he soon ceases to do. He is not long soft and pathetic without some idle conceit or contemptible equivocation. He no sooner begins to move, than he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity.