The Works of Samuel Johnson, 2권Nichols, 1816 |
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... success of this work , he would not be dis- pleased that I have undertaken it . It will be proper that the quotations be ranged according to the ages of their authors ; and it will afford an agreeable amusement , if to the words and ...
... success of this work , he would not be dis- pleased that I have undertaken it . It will be proper that the quotations be ranged according to the ages of their authors ; and it will afford an agreeable amusement , if to the words and ...
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... success would have been without applause , and diligence without reward . Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered , not as the pupil , but the slave of science , the pioneer of literature ...
... success would have been without applause , and diligence without reward . Among these unhappy mortals is the writer of dictionaries ; whom mankind have considered , not as the pupil , but the slave of science , the pioneer of literature ...
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... successful- ly taught by modes of spelling fanciful and errone- ous : I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to for- get that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the instrument ...
... successful- ly taught by modes of spelling fanciful and errone- ous : I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to for- get that words are the daughters of earth , and that things are the sons of heaven . Language is only the instrument ...
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... success ; such at least as can be expected in a task , which no man , however learned or sagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been ...
... success ; such at least as can be expected in a task , which no man , however learned or sagacious , has yet been able to perform . Some words there are which I cannot explain , because I do not understand them ; these might have been ...
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... successful , and re- collection or information come too late for use . That many terms of art and manufacture are omitted , must be frankly acknowledged ; but for this defect I may boldly allege that it was unavoid- able ; I could not ...
... successful , and re- collection or information come too late for use . That many terms of art and manufacture are omitted , must be frankly acknowledged ; but for this defect I may boldly allege that it was unavoid- able ; I could not ...
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464 페이지 - 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.
139 페이지 - 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. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there.
81 페이지 - In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual: in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.
85 페이지 - That this is a practice contrary to the rules of criticism will be readily allowed; but there is always an appeal open from criticism to nature. The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.
89 페이지 - ... is probably to be sought in the common intercourse of life, among those who speak only to be understood, without ambition of elegance. The polite are always catching modish innovations, and the learned depart from established forms of speech in hope of finding or making better; those who wish for distinction forsake the vulgar when the vulgar is right.
60 페이지 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
67 페이지 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
85 페이지 - ... the real state of sublunary nature, which partakes of good and evil, joy and sorrow, mingled with endless variety of proportion and innumerable modes of combination, and expressing the course of the world, in which the loss of one is the gain of another; in which, at the same time, the reveler is hasting to his wine and the mourner burying his friend...
31 페이지 - IT is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good; to be exposed to censure, without hope of praise ; to be disgraced by miscarriage, or punished for neglect, where success would have been without applause, and diligence without reward.
97 페이지 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.