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Pagina 30
... caufes of error with the means of avoiding it , and the extent of art with the capacity of man ; and whatever be the event of my endeavours , I fhall not eafily regret an at- tempt which has procured me the honour of appear- ing thus ...
... caufes of error with the means of avoiding it , and the extent of art with the capacity of man ; and whatever be the event of my endeavours , I fhall not eafily regret an at- tempt which has procured me the honour of appear- ing thus ...
Pagina 52
... caufes , been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character , and deviating towards a Gallick ftructure and phrafeology , from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal it , by making our ancient volumes the ground - work ...
... caufes , been gradually departing from its original Teutonick character , and deviating towards a Gallick ftructure and phrafeology , from which it ought to be our endeavour to recal it , by making our ancient volumes the ground - work ...
Pagina 61
... caufes of change , which , though flow in their operation , and invifible in their progrefs , are perhaps as much fuperior to human refiftance , as the revolutions of the sky , or intumefcence of the tide . Commerce , however ne ...
... caufes of change , which , though flow in their operation , and invifible in their progrefs , are perhaps as much fuperior to human refiftance , as the revolutions of the sky , or intumefcence of the tide . Commerce , however ne ...
Pagina 69
... caufes concurring to vitiate the text . No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with fo little care : no books could be left in hands fo likely to injure them , as plays frequently acted , yet continued in manufcript ...
... caufes concurring to vitiate the text . No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with fo little care : no books could be left in hands fo likely to injure them , as plays frequently acted , yet continued in manufcript ...
Pagina 70
... caufes of obfcurity , which may be partly imputed to his age , and partly to himself . When a writer outlives his contemporaries , and remains almoft the only unforgotten name of a diftant time , he is neceffarily obfcure . Every age ...
... caufes of obfcurity , which may be partly imputed to his age , and partly to himself . When a writer outlives his contemporaries , and remains almoft the only unforgotten name of a diftant time , he is neceffarily obfcure . Every age ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 138 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. 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.
Pagina 83 - 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.
Pagina 109 - Shakespeare, however favoured by nature, could impart only what he had learned; and as he must increase his ideas, like other mortals, by gradual acquisition, he, like them, grew wiser as he grew older, could display life better, as he knew it more, and instruct with more efficacy, as he was himself more amply instructed.
Pagina 80 - 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.
Pagina 64 - 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.
Pagina 79 - The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
Pagina 22 - If on a pillory, or near a throne, He gain his prince's ear, or lose his own. Yet soft by nature, more a dupe than wit, Sappho can tell you how this man was bit...
Pagina 97 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Pagina 64 - If the changes that we fear be thus irresistible, what remains but to acquiesce -with silence, as in the other insurmountable distresses of humanity ? It remains that we retard what we cannot repel, that we palliate what we cannot cure.