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... LORD , WHEN first I undertook to write an English Dictionary , I had no expectation of any higher patronage than that of the proprietors of the copy , nor prospect of any other ad- vantage than the price of my labour . I knew that the ...
... LORD , WHEN first I undertook to write an English Dictionary , I had no expectation of any higher patronage than that of the proprietors of the copy , nor prospect of any other ad- vantage than the price of my labour . I knew that the ...
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... Lord , I entered , with the pleasing hope , that , as it was low , it likewise would be safe . I was drawn forward with the prospect of employ- ment , which , though not splendid , would be useful ; and which , though it could not make ...
... Lord , I entered , with the pleasing hope , that , as it was low , it likewise would be safe . I was drawn forward with the prospect of employ- ment , which , though not splendid , would be useful ; and which , though it could not make ...
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... Lord , have not thought unworthy to share your attention with treaties and with wars . In the first attempt to methodise my ideas I found a difficulty , which extended itself to the whole work . It was not easy to determine by what rule ...
... Lord , have not thought unworthy to share your attention with treaties and with wars . In the first attempt to methodise my ideas I found a difficulty , which extended itself to the whole work . It was not easy to determine by what rule ...
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... Lord , will our language be laid down , distinct in its minutest subdivisions , and resolved into its elemental principles . And who upon this survey can forbear to wish , that these fundamental atoms of our speech might obtain the ...
... Lord , will our language be laid down , distinct in its minutest subdivisions , and resolved into its elemental principles . And who upon this survey can forbear to wish , that these fundamental atoms of our speech might obtain the ...
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... Lord , how trifling many of these re- marks will appear , separately considered , and how easily they may give occasion to the contemptuous merriment of sportive idleness , and the gloomy censures of arrogant stupidity ; but dulness it ...
... Lord , how trifling many of these re- marks will appear , separately considered , and how easily they may give occasion to the contemptuous merriment of sportive idleness , and the gloomy censures of arrogant stupidity ; but dulness it ...
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الصفحة 68 - This guest of summer, The temple-haunting martlet, does approve By his lov'd 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 observ'd The air is delicate.
الصفحة 67 - 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.
الصفحة 72 - 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.
الصفحة 115 - His first defect is that to which may be imputed most of the evil in books or in men. He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
الصفحة 153 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
الصفحة 64 - If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir. Ban. New honours come upon him Like our strange garments ; cleave not to their mould, But with the aid of use. Macb. Come what come may ; Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
الصفحة 90 - 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. Out, out, brief candle!
الصفحة 56 - To deny the possibility, nay, actual existence, of witchcraft and sorcery is at once flatly to contradict the revealed word of God, in various passages both of the Old and New Testament : and the thing itself is a truth to which every nation in the world hath in its turn borne testimony, either by examples seemingly well attested or by prohibitory laws; which at least suppose the possibility of commerce with evil spirits.
الصفحة 105 - ... are read without any other reason than the desire of pleasure, and are therefore praised only as pleasure is obtained...
الصفحة 66 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.