Samuel Johnson Quotes

It Is From This Wide Extension Of Design That So Much Instruction Is Derived. It Is This Which Fills The Plays Of Shakespeare With Practical Axioms And Domestick Wisdom. It Was Said Of Euripides, That Every Verse Was A Precept And It May Be Said Of Shakespeare, That From His Works May Be Collected A System Of Civil And Oeconomical Prudence. Yet His Real Power Is Not Shown In The Splendour Of Particular Passages, But By The Progress Of His Fable, And The Tenour Of His Dialogue; And He That Tries To Recommend Him By Select Quotations, Will Succeed Like The Pedant In Hierocles, Who, When He Offered His House To Sale, Carried A Brick In His Pocket As A Specimen.

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