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" What he does best, he soon ceases to do. He is not long soft and pathetic without some idle conceit or contemptible equivocation. He no sooner begins to move, than he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius - Page 150
by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810
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Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..

Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakefpearet what luminous vapours are to the traveller ; he follows it at all adventures, it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power over...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Sbakffpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power over...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity, A quibble is to Shakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures •, it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power over...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...they are rifing in the Mind, are checked and blafted by fudden Frigidjty. A Quibble is to Shakefpeare what luminous Vapours are to the Traveller ; he follows it at all Adventures, it is fure to lead him out of his Way, and fore to entangle him in the Mire. It has fome malignant Power...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pages
...they are rifing in the Mind, are checked and blafted by fudden Frigidity. A Quibble is to Sbakefpeare what luminous Vapours are to the Traveller ; he follows it at all Adventures, it is fure to lead him out of his Way, and fure to entangle him in the Mire. It has fomc malignant Power...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes: Prefaces. The tempest. The ...

William Shakespeare - 1778 - 746 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller: he follows it at all adventures; it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power over...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tracts

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 500 pages
...they.. are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Sbakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller : he follows it at all adventures ; it is fure to lead him out of his way, and ill re to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power...
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...of contemptible equivocation. He no sooner begins to move, than he counteracts himself; and terror and pity, as they are rising in the mind, are checked and blasted by sudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakspere, what luminous vapours a're to the traveller ; he follows it' at all adventures ; ff is sure...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakefpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures ; it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power over...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...they are rifing in the mind, are checked and blafted by fudden frigidity. A quibble is to Shakfpeare, what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures; it is fure to lead him out of his way, and fure to engulf him in the mire. It has fome malignant power over...
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