The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Adventurer and IdlerW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... mankind , " is the characteristic opening of his first Adventurer . And when we have admired the real excellence of his heart , we must wonder at the vigour of a mind , which could so abstract itself from its own sorrows and misfortunes ...
... mankind , " is the characteristic opening of his first Adventurer . And when we have admired the real excellence of his heart , we must wonder at the vigour of a mind , which could so abstract itself from its own sorrows and misfortunes ...
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... mankind with the eye of a philosopher ; but his own easier circumstances would now present the world's aspect to him in brighter , fairer colours . Besides , he could , with more propriety and less risk of misapprehension , venture to ...
... mankind with the eye of a philosopher ; but his own easier circumstances would now present the world's aspect to him in brighter , fairer colours . Besides , he could , with more propriety and less risk of misapprehension , venture to ...
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... mankind . Opulence and splendour are enabled to dispel the cloud of adversity , to dry up the tears of the widow and the orphan , and to increase the felicity of all around them : their example will animate virtue , and retard the pro ...
... mankind . Opulence and splendour are enabled to dispel the cloud of adversity , to dry up the tears of the widow and the orphan , and to increase the felicity of all around them : their example will animate virtue , and retard the pro ...
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... mankind , we might , perhaps , be at a loss , why so liberal and impartial a benefactor as sleep , should meet with so few historians or panegyrists . Writers are so totally absorbed by the business of the day , as never to turn their ...
... mankind , we might , perhaps , be at a loss , why so liberal and impartial a benefactor as sleep , should meet with so few historians or panegyrists . Writers are so totally absorbed by the business of the day , as never to turn their ...
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... mankind , who take wide surveys of the wilds of life , who see the innu- merable terrours and distresses that are perpetually prey- ing on the heart of man , and discern with unhappy perspi- cuity , calamities yet latent in their causes ...
... mankind , who take wide surveys of the wilds of life , who see the innu- merable terrours and distresses that are perpetually prey- ing on the heart of man , and discern with unhappy perspi- cuity , calamities yet latent in their causes ...
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Page 378 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 97 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
Page 377 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain...
Page 15 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Page 382 - Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot.
Page 391 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 452 - But when men have killed their prey," said the pupil, " why do they not eat it ? When the wolf has killed a sheep, he suffers not the vulture to touch it till he has satisfied himself. Is not man another kind of wolf ?" "Man," said the mother, " is the only beast who kills that which he does not devour, and this quality makes him so much a benefactor to our species.
Page 399 - ... it may perhaps be sometimes read as a model of a neat or elegant style, not for the sake of knowing what it contains, but how it is written ; or those that are weary of themselves may have recourse to it as a pleasing dream, of which, when they awake, they voluntarily dismiss the images from their minds. The examples and events of history press indeed upon the mind with the weight of truth ; but when they are reposited in the memory, they are oftener employed for show than use, and rather diversify...
Page 399 - Those relations are therefore commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events, lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick dress, and endeavours to hide the man that he may produce a hero.
Page 238 - No species of literary men has lately been so much multiplied as the writers of news. Not many years ago the nation was content with one Gazette; but now we have not only in the metropolis papers for every morning and every evening, but almost every large town has its weekly historian, who regularly circulates his periodical intelligence...