The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... reason of this , he replied , Sir , I thought it had been better . " 6 " Talking of a point of delicate scrupulosity of moral conduct , he said to Mr. Langton , Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from which you and I ...
... reason of this , he replied , Sir , I thought it had been better . " 6 " Talking of a point of delicate scrupulosity of moral conduct , he said to Mr. Langton , Men of harder minds than ours will do many things from which you and I ...
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... reasons for reading romances ; as the fertility of invention , the beauty of style and expression , the curiosity of ... reason set them free from it , ) is every day wearing out , seem likely to be of little further assistance in the ...
... reasons for reading romances ; as the fertility of invention , the beauty of style and expression , the curiosity of ... reason set them free from it , ) is every day wearing out , seem likely to be of little further assistance in the ...
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... reason ; heretofore the poorer people were more numerous , and from want of commerce , their means of getting a livelihood more difficult ; therefore the supporting them was an act . of great benevolence ; now that the poor can C 2 Etat ...
... reason ; heretofore the poorer people were more numerous , and from want of commerce , their means of getting a livelihood more difficult ; therefore the supporting them was an act . of great benevolence ; now that the poor can C 2 Etat ...
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... reason is plain : I have had very little money to count . " " He had an abhorrence of affectation . Talk- ing of old Mr. Langton , of whom he said , ' Sir , you , you will seldom see such a gentlemen , such are his stores of literature ...
... reason is plain : I have had very little money to count . " " He had an abhorrence of affectation . Talk- ing of old Mr. Langton , of whom he said , ' Sir , you , you will seldom see such a gentlemen , such are his stores of literature ...
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... reason than quick sensibility . Upon all occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental passions as they spring ...
... reason than quick sensibility . Upon all occasions that were presented , he studied rather than felt ; and produced sentiments not such as Nature enforces , but meditation supplies . With the simple and elemental passions as they spring ...
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Page 324 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
Page 100 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Page 104 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
Page 47 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
Page 48 - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
Page 459 - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
Page 151 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
Page 113 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
Page 80 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Page 316 - We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Novell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we drank "Church and King" after dinner, with true Tory cordiality.