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Pagina 6
... fcience is too delicate for the - purposes of life . The value of a work must be eftimated by its ufe : it is not enough that a diction- ary delights the critick , unlefs , at the fame time , it inftructs the learner ; as it is to ...
... fcience is too delicate for the - purposes of life . The value of a work must be eftimated by its ufe : it is not enough that a diction- ary delights the critick , unlefs , at the fame time , it inftructs the learner ; as it is to ...
Pagina 42
... fcience or technical dictionaries ; and have often inferted , from philofo- phical writers , words which are fupported perhaps only by a fingle authority , and which being not ad- mitted into general ufe , fland yet as candidates or ...
... fcience or technical dictionaries ; and have often inferted , from philofo- phical writers , words which are fupported perhaps only by a fingle authority , and which being not ad- mitted into general ufe , fland yet as candidates or ...
Pagina 50
... that every quotation fhould be ufeful to fome other end than the illuftration of a word ; I therefore extracted from philofophers principles of 4 fcience ; fcience ; from hiftorians remarkable facts ; from chymifts complete 50 PREFACE TO ...
... that every quotation fhould be ufeful to fome other end than the illuftration of a word ; I therefore extracted from philofophers principles of 4 fcience ; fcience ; from hiftorians remarkable facts ; from chymifts complete 50 PREFACE TO ...
Pagina 51
Samuel Johnson. fcience ; from hiftorians remarkable facts ; from chymifts complete proceffes ; from divines ftriking exhortations ; and from poets beautiful defcriptions . Such is defign , while it is yet at a distance from execution ...
Samuel Johnson. fcience ; from hiftorians remarkable facts ; from chymifts complete proceffes ; from divines ftriking exhortations ; and from poets beautiful defcriptions . Such is defign , while it is yet at a distance from execution ...
Pagina 56
... fcience , to enquire the nature of every substance of which I inferted the name , to limit every idea by a definition ftrictly logical , and exhibit every production of art or nature in an ac- curate description , that my book might be ...
... fcience , to enquire the nature of every substance of which I inferted the name , to limit every idea by a definition ftrictly logical , and exhibit every production of art or nature in an ac- curate description , that my book might be ...
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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.