The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... appears from less doubtful evidence ; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of a base extraction , the child of va- nity and nursling of ignorance . NUMB . 75 ...
... appears from less doubtful evidence ; for though peevishness may sometimes justly boast its descent from learning or from wit , it is much oftener of a base extraction , the child of va- nity and nursling of ignorance . NUMB . 75 ...
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... appear before their own eyes ; and as there has never been a time of such general felicity , but that many have failed to obtain the rewards to which they had , in their own judgment , a just claim , some offended writer has always ...
... appear before their own eyes ; and as there has never been a time of such general felicity , but that many have failed to obtain the rewards to which they had , in their own judgment , a just claim , some offended writer has always ...
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... appear to know with so strong conviction the neces- sity of performing . Yet since no man has power of acting equal to that of thinking , I know not whether the speculatist may not sometimes incur censures too severe , and by those who ...
... appear to know with so strong conviction the neces- sity of performing . Yet since no man has power of acting equal to that of thinking , I know not whether the speculatist may not sometimes incur censures too severe , and by those who ...
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... appears , from some broken remains of the letters , to have been Tuscan , and therefore probably engraved before the foundation of Rome . I have two pieces of porphyry found among the ruins of Ephesus , and three letters broken off by a ...
... appears , from some broken remains of the letters , to have been Tuscan , and therefore probably engraved before the foundation of Rome . I have two pieces of porphyry found among the ruins of Ephesus , and three letters broken off by a ...
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... appears little be universally despised , nothing greater can be attained , for all that is great was at first little , and rose to its present bulk by gradual accessions , and accumulated labours . Those who lay out time or money in ...
... appears little be universally despised , nothing greater can be attained , for all that is great was at first little , and rose to its present bulk by gradual accessions , and accumulated labours . Those who lay out time or money in ...
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Page 79 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 106 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 83 - God made thee of choice his own, and of his own To serve him; thy reward was of his grace; Thy punishment then justly is at his will. Be...
Page 90 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn : here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 405 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 120 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Page 46 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 80 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 375 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 83 - Modesty itself, if it is praised, will be envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.