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Page 37
... Occafion to obferve , that it is in itfelf inaccurate , and tolerated rather than chofen ; particularly when , by a Change of one Letter , or more , the Meaning of a Word is obfcured ; as in Farrier , or Ferrier , as it was formerly ...
... Occafion to obferve , that it is in itfelf inaccurate , and tolerated rather than chofen ; particularly when , by a Change of one Letter , or more , the Meaning of a Word is obfcured ; as in Farrier , or Ferrier , as it was formerly ...
Page 49
... Occafion to the contemptuous Merriment of fportive Idlenefs , and the gloomy Cenfures of arrogant Stupidity ; but Dulness it is eafy to defpife , and Laughter it is eafy to repay . I Thall not be follicitous what is thought of my Work ...
... Occafion to the contemptuous Merriment of fportive Idlenefs , and the gloomy Cenfures of arrogant Stupidity ; but Dulness it is eafy to defpife , and Laughter it is eafy to repay . I Thall not be follicitous what is thought of my Work ...
Page 66
... Occafion requires , or is imagined to require them . There is another Kind of Compofition more fre- quent in our Language than perhaps in any other , from which arifes to Foreigners the greateft Diffi- culty . We modify the ...
... Occafion requires , or is imagined to require them . There is another Kind of Compofition more fre- quent in our Language than perhaps in any other , from which arifes to Foreigners the greateft Diffi- culty . We modify the ...
Page 77
... Occafion to another , that Book re- ferred to Book , that to fearch was not always to find , and to find was not always to be informed ; and that thus to purfue Perfection , was , like the firft Inha- bitants of Arcadia , to chace the ...
... Occafion to another , that Book re- ferred to Book , that to fearch was not always to find , and to find was not always to be informed ; and that thus to purfue Perfection , was , like the firft Inha- bitants of Arcadia , to chace the ...
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... Occafion : Even where the Agency is fuper- natural , the Dialogue is level with Life . Other Writers disguise the most natural Paffions and moft frequent Incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the Book will not know them in the ...
... Occafion : Even where the Agency is fuper- natural , the Dialogue is level with Life . Other Writers disguise the most natural Paffions and moft frequent Incidents ; fo that he who contemplates them in the Book will not know them in the ...
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Page 136 - Shakespeare's text; of whom one ridicules his errors with airy petulance, suitable enough to the levity of the controversy; the other attacks them with gloomy malignity, as if he were dragging to justice an assassin or incendiary. The one stings like a fly, sucks a little blood, takes a gay flutter, and returns for more; the other bites like a viper, and would be glad to leave inflammations and gangrene behind him.
Page 322 - Enquirer, cease, petitions yet remain, Which heav'n may hear, nor deem religion vain. Still raise for good the supplicating voice, But leave to heav'n the measure and the choice, Safe in his pow'r, whose eyes discern afar The secret ambush of a specious pray'r.
Page 203 - Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Page 120 - The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses ; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.
Page 237 - He had employed his mind chiefly upon works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters ; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the water-falls of Elysian...
Page 301 - But all whom hunger spares, with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 127 - He has scenes of undoubted and perpetual excellence; but perhaps not one play, which, if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer, would be heard to the conclusion. I am indeed far from thinking, that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection; when they were such as would satisfy the audience, they satisfied the writer. It is...
Page 107 - 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.
Page 293 - And chase the new-blown bubbles of the day. Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Page 317 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...