The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 7Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... rich ? How long the wife will be persuaded of the emi- nence of her husband , or the husband continue to believe that his wife has the qualities required to make marriage happy , may reasonably be question- ed . I am afraid that much ...
... rich ? How long the wife will be persuaded of the emi- nence of her husband , or the husband continue to believe that his wife has the qualities required to make marriage happy , may reasonably be question- ed . I am afraid that much ...
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... rich , he was growing happy . His mind has partaken the en- largement of his fortune . When I stepped in for the first five years , I was welcomed only with a shake of the hand ; in the next period of his life , he bec- koned across the ...
... rich , he was growing happy . His mind has partaken the en- largement of his fortune . When I stepped in for the first five years , I was welcomed only with a shake of the hand ; in the next period of his life , he bec- koned across the ...
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... rich ; and whatever has , by any accident , become fashionable , easily continues its reputation , because every one is ashamed of not partaking it . To every place of entertainment we go with ex- pectation and desire of being pleased ...
... rich ; and whatever has , by any accident , become fashionable , easily continues its reputation , because every one is ashamed of not partaking it . To every place of entertainment we go with ex- pectation and desire of being pleased ...
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... pations ; and multitudes are busied , from day to day , in finding the rich and the fortunate something to do . It is very common to reproach those artists as useless 13 It N ° 30 . 117 THE IDLER . NUMB. 30. SATURDAY, November 11, 1758. ...
... pations ; and multitudes are busied , from day to day , in finding the rich and the fortunate something to do . It is very common to reproach those artists as useless 13 It N ° 30 . 117 THE IDLER . NUMB. 30. SATURDAY, November 11, 1758. ...
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... to his native element . Tell him , that his wit will never make him rich , but that there are places where riches will always make a wit . I am , SIR , & c . DEBORAH GINGER . NUMB . 48. SATURDAY , March 17 , 1759 . 190 N ° 47 . THE IDLER .
... to his native element . Tell him , that his wit will never make him rich , but that there are places where riches will always make a wit . I am , SIR , & c . DEBORAH GINGER . NUMB . 48. SATURDAY , March 17 , 1759 . 190 N ° 47 . THE IDLER .
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Page 329 - I was led into the subject of this letter by endeavouring to fix the original cause of this conduct of the Italian masters. If it can be proved that by this choice they selected the...
Page 319 - There may perhaps be too great an indulgence, as well as too great a restraint of imagination; and if the one produces incoherent monsters, the other produces what is full as bad, lifeless insipidity. An intimate knowledge of the passions, and good sense, but not common sense, must at last determine its limits. It has been thought, and...
Page 118 - But this censure will be mitigated when it is seriously considered that money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and that the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.
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Page 44 - This distinction of seasons is produced only by imagination operating on luxury. To temperance, every day is bright ; and every hour is propitious to diligence. He that shall resolutely excite his faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superiour to the seasons ; and may set at defiance the morning mist and the evening damp, the blasts of the east, and the clouds of the south.
Page 280 - That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Page 174 - The traveller visits in age those countries through which he rambled in his youth, and hopes for merriment at the old place. The man of business, wearied with unsatisfactory prosperity, retires to the town of his nativity, and expects to play away the last years with the companions of his childhood, and recover youth in the fields where he once was young.
Page 252 - June 30, 1/59HPHE natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety.
Page 143 - ... and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself, might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired; but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and, as he grows more elegant, becomes less intelligible.