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id: 15566
title: Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  I.iii.129 (23,5) It favours, like the work] The old edition reads, III.ii.226 (70,4) For I have neither writ] The old copy reads instead of II.iii.21 (153,6) thy angel/Becomes a Fear] Mr.Uptan reads, III.xiii.1 (200,3) Think, and die] [Hanmer: Drink] This reading, offered Hanmer follows Theobald; Dr. Warburton retains the old reading. IV.iii.153 (359,3) mens'' spurring] Hanmer reads _sparring_, properly IV.iii.398 (373,6) More things like men?] This line, in the old edition, IV.iii.419 (373,7) you want much of meat] [T: of meet] Such is Mr. Theobald''s emendation, in which he is followed by Dr. Warburton. V.iii.4 (393,2) Some beast read this; here does not live a man] [W: III.iv.177 (231,8) which you''ll make him know] This is HANMER''s reading. Mr. Lewis Theobald, for want of knowing the meaning of the old reading I.iii.66 (24,4) It is an honour] The modern editors all read, _it is an III.ii.103 (245,4) nor mine now] A man''s words, says the proverb, are


id: 5429
title: Preface to Shakespeare
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  [Johnson published his annotated edition of Shakespeare''s Plays in life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught Shakespeare''s plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense world better, and justice is a virtue independant on time or place. A play read, affects the mind like a play acted. that a play, written with nice observation of critical rules, is of a play, are to copy nature and instruct life. The English nation, in the time of Shakespeare, was yet struggling who united elegance with learning, read, with great diligence, have been performed in states of life, that appear very little Shakespeare, whether life or nature It does not appear, that Shakespeare thought his works worthy of times, they were printed during Shakespeare''s life, with his name, Before Dr. Warburton''s edition, "Critical Observations on Shakespeare" None of Shakespeare''s plays are more read than the first and second


id: 5430
title: Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated As language was at its beginning merely oral, all words of necessary we have few Latin words, among the terms of domestick use, which upon greater things, have thought little on sounds and derivations; observe whether the Latin word be pure or barbarous, or the French But to COLLECT the WORDS of our language was a task of my predecessors, by inserting great numbers of compounded words, that no words can express the dissimilitude, though the mind easily considered words beyond their popular use, be thought only the jargon The original sense of words is often driven out of use by their each word, and ranged according to the time of their authours. mankind, for want of English words, in which they might be expressed. such words as common use requires, would perhaps long continue to


id: 2064
title: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  We left this little island with our thoughts employed awhile on the Elgin seems a place of little trade, and thinly inhabited. this island lived from the present time, is afforded by the stone heads table, a visit was paid by the Laird and Lady of a small island south of Those, said he, are the walls of a place of refuge, built in the time of the eldest son of the Laird of Col, heir to a very great extent of land, It is generally supposed, that life is longer in places where there are In the Islands, as in most other places, the inhabitants are of different in as little danger from the powerful as in other places. English, and had never seen any other places than the Islands of Sky, thoughts that naturally rise in places where the great and the powerful


id: 10350
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  present state of man necessary, they may supply some motives to content. in America, with equal power and greater spirit, having lost nothing by power; and the great designs of a king, whose wisdom they had so long Spaniards, and continues, to this day, a place of great wealth and During the time of Charles the second, the power of France was every day lived here, in no great numbers, a long time, neither molesting their Nor were the French the only nation by which this great man was Thus died Boerhaave, a man formed by nature for great designs, and The king, having spent some time in admiring the multitude of new Having thus passed a year at Leyden with great advantage, he returned not answer the time and pains of learning them; yet had so great a great part of the country, making observations upon all that appeared

title:
  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Eleven Volumes, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons


id: 10352
title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 11. Parlimentary Debates II.
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  produced, in the house of lords, a debate, in which the greatest men of The nation, my lords, in the mean time, justly applies for redress to Let us remember, my lords, that power is supported by opinion, and that I hope, my lords, I shall be easily forgiven for observing, that this is executing the office of lord high admiral of Great Britain for the time lords, as I doubt not but I shall be able to justify the measures Even at this time, my lords, was I sufficiently confident of the power my lords, if no private man ought to be censured without just reason, commons to the house of lords, produced there very long and serious This, my lords, I hope I shall never see the state of my own country: In the present war, my lords, if the number of our people were equal


id: 10351
title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  In the mean time, sir, it may be proper for the house to expedite the Mr. BURREL then spoke as follows:--Sir, if this law be necessary at any The law ought, sir, in my opinion, not to commence till time is allowed danger be true, of far more importance, shall form the new forces with Should any man assert, my lords, that the army ought to be formed into a With regard, sir, to the present war, I know not how the nation can be For this reason, sir, I think it necessary to observe, that the intent Nothing is more evident, sir, than that the natural power of the nation Lord GAGE spoke to this effect:--Sir, it is well known that by the laws Lord BALTIMORE spoke thus:--Sir, it appears to me of no great importance If the sailor, sir, is exposed to greater dangers in time of war, is not


id: 9823
title: Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  Lives of the English Poets; a work that gave to the British nation a new Among the English poets, Cowley, Milton, and Pope, might be said "to this was a time of such general hope, that great numbers were inevitably the line that admits them, were, in the time of Cowley, little censured At what particular times of his life the parts of his work were written, He was, for some time, according to the author of his life, clerk to Mr. Jefferys, of Earl''s Croomb, in Worcestershire, an eminent justice of said to have written or begun his poem at this time; and it is likely His great work is his Essay on Translated Verse; of which Dryden writes The same year he praised the new king in a second poem on his for a long time been acted only once a year, on the night when king His acquaintance with the great writers of his time appears to have been


id: 10835
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  It may be said, the death of Dr. Johnson kept the public mind in Johnson is a very good scholar and a poet, and, I have great hopes, will It is said, upon good authority, that Johnson once received from lord said Mr. Boswell, "that I am come to London, at a bad time, when great know that I cannot help coming from Scotland." "Sir," said Johnson, "no on every Wednesday evening; and, to serve a man whom he had known in Mr. Thrale''s household for many years, the place was fixed at his house, in writer''s end." Johnson went to see men and manners, modes of life, and "You know," said the prince, "how little my life has made me acquainted "Great prince," said Imlac, "I shall speak the truth; I know not one of your mind," said Imlac, "with other hopes or fears than reason may

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  Dr. Johnson''s Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes


id: 11768
title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  Words of general use will be known by having no sign of particularity, every people arises from its authors: whether I shall add any thing by and time with so little care: no books could be left in hands so likely to the nature of his work, which required the use of the common writers, in his least perfect works; art had so little, and nature so nature, till the books of one age gain such authority, as to stand in correction or explanation; but that our author''s works might appear like our time it be sufficient, was then of no great authority; for all the only be so far known as the author shall think fit to discover it. The great art of life is to play for much, and to stake little; which To end this work in an useful manner, let us examine, in a few words,


id: 11397
title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  have great pleasure in listening to the conversation of learned men, A sober man like thee to change his life! nature protracted the days in summer, lest ladies should want time to combinations of life, that a good man may receive favours from one, who, Such is the life of squire Bluster; a man in whose power fortune has into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life single man; how little vacancy is left in the world for any new object As little things grow great by continual accumulation, I hope you will I have in this view of life considered man as actuated only by natural pass a long interval of my life in solitude, as a man suspected of No man can imagine the course of his own life, or the conduct of the The time present is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with


id: 12050
title: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  is no time of life, in which men for the most part seem less to expect man thinks the day coming, in which he shall be gratified with all his generally the life of man, that he is pleased to think on the time when dangers which beset the life of man, we shall be able to reach the time man has like me lost an Euryalus, has known a friend die with happiness great part of that life, of which every man knows and deplores the are placed in an evil world, to exhibit publick examples of good life; trifling away life: every man looks on the occupation or amusement of man who does not claim the power of wasting that time which is the right business; for, says he, _when a man advances in life, he loves to time be put to every thing great as to every thing little; that to life


id: 7780
title: Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  question is the 1773 Johnson-Steevens edition of Shakespeare''s plays. II.iii.60 (246,2) [mock-water] The host means, I believe, to reflect place it seems to mean what is in our time expressed by _to come down_, I am not convinced that a line is lost, as Mr. Theobald conjectures, nor that the change of _but_ to _put_, which Dr. Warburton has admitted after some other editor, will amend the fault. III.i.121 (71,8) [delighted spirit] This reading may perhaps stand, reads, _the_ odd _fantastical duke_, but _old_ is a common word of quarrelsome fellow, for in this sense Shakespeare uses the word III.i.107 (275,9) [Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand] This the author means that the _virtue,_ in which word _goodness_ I.iii.180 (130,1) [I like not fair terms] Kind words, good language. III.v.70 (182,5) [how his words are suited!] I believe the meaning IV.iii.59 (318,4) [youth and kind] _Kind_ is the old word for _nature_.


id: 13350
title: The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750)
author: Johnson, Samuel
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  against a knowledge of their author''s life, "the pages of _The Rambler_ Johnson proceeded to put them to original uses, generating with them new And watch the busy Scenes of crouded Life; Few know the toiling States man''s Fear or Care, Yet hope not Life from Grief or Danger free, Still drops some Joy from with''ring Life away; A Man that has formed this Habit of turning every new Object to his Spring of Life; to acquire, while their Minds may be yet impressed with one great Transaction, afford few Lessons applicable to private Life, I have often thought that there has rarely passed a Life of which a Man has in the mighty Mass of the World great Numbers in the same The Life of _Thuanus_ is, with great Propriety, said by its Author to have Life be delayed till all Interest and Envy are at an End, and all Motives


id: 26142
title: Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel
author: Johnson, Samuel W. (Samuel William)
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  b. Condensation of Fibrous Peat--Weber''s Method; Hot-drying 135 In 1858 I took a weighed quantity of air-dry peat from the New Haven the soluble organic matters of the soil and of peat, especially the Peat and swamp-muck, when properly prepared, furnish carbonic acid in matters, while peat contains usually 5 to 10 _per cent._, and often effect of several air-dry peats--the heating power of an equal bulk of The quantity of water retained by air-dried peat appears to be the same of the peat for use as fuel, the canals that carry off the water from or even needful to drain and air-dry the peat, preliminary to working. 50 _per cent._ of water, and the best hot-made machine peat contains 15 Good air-dry peat, containing 20 to 30 _per cent._ of water, in some The exclusive use of air-dry peat as fuel in the


