The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll. D.: Containing Adventurer and RasselasJ. Haddon, 1820 |
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... Shakespeare , ( if you except some critical notes on Macbeth , given as a specimen " of a projected edition , and written as appears by a man of parts " and genius ) the rest are absolutely below a serious notice . " - Warburton's ...
... Shakespeare , ( if you except some critical notes on Macbeth , given as a specimen " of a projected edition , and written as appears by a man of parts " and genius ) the rest are absolutely below a serious notice . " - Warburton's ...
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... Shakespeare was in no dan- ger of such censures , since he only turned the system that was then universally admitted to his advantage , and was far from overburthening the credulity of his audience . The reality of witchcraft or ...
... Shakespeare was in no dan- ger of such censures , since he only turned the system that was then universally admitted to his advantage , and was far from overburthening the credulity of his audience . The reality of witchcraft or ...
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... Shakespeare , was the doctrine of witchcraft at once established by law and by the fashion , and it became not only unpolite , but crimi- nal , to doubt it ; and as prodigies are always seen in proportion as they are expected , witches ...
... Shakespeare , was the doctrine of witchcraft at once established by law and by the fashion , and it became not only unpolite , but crimi- nal , to doubt it ; and as prodigies are always seen in proportion as they are expected , witches ...
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... Shakespeare wrote various , which might be easily mistaken for very , be- ing either negligently read , hastily pronounced , or imperfectly heard . ( 3 ) He shall live a man forbid . Mr. Theobald has very justly explained forbid by ...
... Shakespeare wrote various , which might be easily mistaken for very , be- ing either negligently read , hastily pronounced , or imperfectly heard . ( 3 ) He shall live a man forbid . Mr. Theobald has very justly explained forbid by ...
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... Shakespeare wrote it thus , Come what come may , Time ! on ! -the hour runs thro ' the roughest day . Macbeth is deliberating upon the events which are to befal him ; but finding no satisfaction from his own thoughts , he grows ...
... Shakespeare wrote it thus , Come what come may , Time ! on ! -the hour runs thro ' the roughest day . Macbeth is deliberating upon the events which are to befal him ; but finding no satisfaction from his own thoughts , he grows ...
Términos y frases comunes
ADVENTURER amuse ancient appear Aristophanes Athenians Athens Banquo beauty Cawdor censure CHAP character comedy comic common considered Cratinus delight desire died hereafter discovered easily elegance endeavoured equally Euripides evil expected eyes favour fear felicity folly fortune gain genius give golden blood gratified Greek comedy happiness honour hope hour human imagine Imlac kind king knowledge labour lady learned less likewise live look Macbeth mankind manner Menander ment mind misery Moliere murder nature Nekayah ness never NOTE observed once opinion passage passed passions Pekuah perfect spy perhaps phanes Plautus pleased pleasure Plutarch poet present prince princess racter Rasselas reader reason rest scarcely SCENE sense sentiments Shakespeare shew Socrates solitude sometimes suffered supposed surely taste Terence thee Theocritus thing thou thought Tibullus tion tragedy truth ulmo virtue witchcraft witches writers
Pasajes populares
Página 126 - 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.
Página 113 - 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 is blanch'd with fear.
Página 295 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope ; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia.
Página 97 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. No jutty, frieze, Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird Hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. Where they most breed and haunt, I have observed, The air is delicate.
Página 103 - 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.
Página 323 - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refine•icnt.
Página 96 - 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.
Página 310 - Sir, said he, you have seen but a small part of what the mechanic sciences can perform. I have been long of opinion, that instead of the tardy conveyance of ships and chariots, man might use the swifter migration of wings ; that the fields of air are open to knowledge, and that only ignorance and idleness need crawl upon the ground.
Página 312 - ... easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings, and hovering in the sky, would see the earth, and all its inhabitants, rolling beneath him, and presenting to him successively, by its diurnal motion, all the countries within the same parallel. How must it amuse the...
Página 415 - DISORDERS of intellect," answered Imlac, " happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.