Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)Chapman and Hall, 1876 - 4 pages |
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... spell ; for certainly none of them is very harsh ; but whenever a Frenchman finds a difficulty in spelling a word , he throws in a handful of consonants to help him over : these are the fascines of M. Boileau's approaches . The sound of ...
... spell ; for certainly none of them is very harsh ; but whenever a Frenchman finds a difficulty in spelling a word , he throws in a handful of consonants to help him over : these are the fascines of M. Boileau's approaches . The sound of ...
Page 165
... spelling hath undergone as many changes as the French , and worse . Johnson . And because it hath undergone many , you would make it undergo more ! There is a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an atrophy of mind . We ...
... spelling hath undergone as many changes as the French , and worse . Johnson . And because it hath undergone many , you would make it undergo more ! There is a fastidiousness in the use of language that indicates an atrophy of mind . We ...
Page 166
... spell three words differently from his contemporaries , and as Milton spent them , he would look about in vain for a publisher . Tooke . Yet Milton is most careful and exact in his spelling , and his ear is as correct as his learning ...
... spell three words differently from his contemporaries , and as Milton spent them , he would look about in vain for a publisher . Tooke . Yet Milton is most careful and exact in his spelling , and his ear is as correct as his learning ...
Page 167
... spelling . Bentley and Hall and Dryden , though sound writers , are deficient in authority with me ; when , for example , they write incompatible for incompetible : we want both words , but we must be careful not to confound and ...
... spelling . Bentley and Hall and Dryden , though sound writers , are deficient in authority with me ; when , for example , they write incompatible for incompetible : we want both words , but we must be careful not to confound and ...
Page 168
... spelling ; so was Virgil ; and to such a degree , that , Aulus Gellius tells us , he spelled the same word dif- ferently in different places , to gratify his ear . Milton has done the same . : Johnson . And sometimes injudiciously for ...
... spelling ; so was Virgil ; and to such a degree , that , Aulus Gellius tells us , he spelled the same word dif- ferently in different places , to gratify his ear . Milton has done the same . : Johnson . And sometimes injudiciously for ...
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Page 383 - There is no excellent Beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Page 518 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed reliques should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What needst thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 375 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not: but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.
Page 366 - That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come; therefore they do but trifle with themselves that labour in past matters. There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake, but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like; therefore why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong, merely out of...
Page 443 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 374 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 127 - Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about us and to die) Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan; A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot; Or garden tempting with forbidden fruit.
Page 382 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 386 - Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid...
Page 44 - He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure ; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal, The past unsighed for, and the future sure...