The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.L. Hansard, 1806 |
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Page 25
... night . " Such is the account of the Nile and its in- undations , which it is hoped , will not be deemed an improper or tedious digreffion , especially as the whole is an extract from Johnfon's tranflation . He is all the time the actor ...
... night . " Such is the account of the Nile and its in- undations , which it is hoped , will not be deemed an improper or tedious digreffion , especially as the whole is an extract from Johnfon's tranflation . He is all the time the actor ...
Page 53
... nights . Since that time it has not been exhibited on any stage . Irene may be added to fome other plays in our language ... night behind the scenes . Conceiving that his character as an author required fome ornament for his perfon , he ...
... nights . Since that time it has not been exhibited on any stage . Irene may be added to fome other plays in our language ... night behind the scenes . Conceiving that his character as an author required fome ornament for his perfon , he ...
Page 86
... night , and dread the coming day . Exhaufted , tir'd , I throw my eyes around , To find fome vacant fpot on claffic ground ; And foon , vain hope ! I form a grand defign ; Languor fucceeds , and all my pow'rs decline . If Science open ...
... night , and dread the coming day . Exhaufted , tir'd , I throw my eyes around , To find fome vacant fpot on claffic ground ; And foon , vain hope ! I form a grand defign ; Languor fucceeds , and all my pow'rs decline . If Science open ...
Page 87
... night , While paffions , error , phantoms of the brain , And vain opinions , fill the dark domain ; A dreary void , where fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and defolate the mind . What then remains ? Muft I in flow decline To ...
... night , While paffions , error , phantoms of the brain , And vain opinions , fill the dark domain ; A dreary void , where fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and defolate the mind . What then remains ? Muft I in flow decline To ...
Page 104
... night " and twelve on Thursday night . " This celerity has appeared wonderful to many , and fome have doubted the truth . It may , however , be placed within the bounds of probability . Johnson has obferved that there are different ...
... night " and twelve on Thursday night . " This celerity has appeared wonderful to many , and fome have doubted the truth . It may , however , be placed within the bounds of probability . Johnson has obferved that there are different ...
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ABDALLA affiftance Afpafia againſt ASPASIA Baffa beauty bofom Bofwell breaſt CALI CARAZA caufe cauſe charms Colley Cibber converfation death defire DEMETRIUS effays Engliſh eſtabliſhed ev'ry eyes faid fame fate fatire fays fcorn fecret fecula feems fhades fhall fhine fhould fibi fighs fince firft firſt flaves fmile fome foon forrow foul fpirit friendſhip ftill fubject fuch fword Garrick Gentleman's Magazine Greece HASAN Heav'n Hiftory himſelf honour hope houfe IRENE Johnfon juftice labours laft laſt LEONTIUS Lichfield Lord MAHOMET mihi mind moſt muft muſt MUSTAPHA nunc o'er obfervation occafion paffions pleafing pleaſe pleaſure pow'r praiſe prefent publick publiſhed quæ quod rage reafon rife SAMUEL JOHNSON SATIRE OF JUVENAL SCENE ſhall Sir John Hawkins ſtate ſtill Sultan thee thefe theſe thine thofe thoſe thou thought tibi tion tranflation uſed vifit virtue vitæ whofe wiſhes writer
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Page 76 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
Page 76 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 212 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Page 12 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Page 55 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 353 - If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis a proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Page 340 - Lyce, in which he claims for this ancient personage as good a right to be assimilated to heaven, as nymphs whom other poets have flattered; he therefore ironically ascribes to her the attributes of the sky, in such stanzas as this: " Her teeth the night with darkness dies, She's starr'd with pimples o'er ; Her tongue like nimble lightning plies, And can with thunder roar.
Page 214 - Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime ; An age that melts with unperceiv'd decay, And glides in modest innocence away; Whose peaceful day Benevolence endears, Whose night congratulating Conscience cheers; The gen'ral fav'rite as the gen'ral friend: Such age there is, and who shall wish its end?
Page 76 - Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. 'The Shepherd in Virgil, grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
Page 75 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.