The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and IdlerW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 - English literature |
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... equally necessary to intellectual accomplishment 68 92. Criticism on the Pastorals of Virgil 73 95. Apology for apparent plagiarism . Sources of literary variety 79 99. Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded 84 102 ...
... equally necessary to intellectual accomplishment 68 92. Criticism on the Pastorals of Virgil 73 95. Apology for apparent plagiarism . Sources of literary variety 79 99. Projectors injudiciously censured and applauded 84 102 ...
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... equally hazardous with that of the sol- dier , is neither accompanied with present honour nor with pleasing retrospect ; such is , and such ought to be , the difference between the enemy and the preserver of his country . Amidst such ...
... equally hazardous with that of the sol- dier , is neither accompanied with present honour nor with pleasing retrospect ; such is , and such ought to be , the difference between the enemy and the preserver of his country . Amidst such ...
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... equally endangered . But if their first attack can be withstood , time will never fail to dis- solve their union : success and miscarriage will be equally destructive : after the conquest of a province , they will quarrel in the ...
... equally endangered . But if their first attack can be withstood , time will never fail to dis- solve their union : success and miscarriage will be equally destructive : after the conquest of a province , they will quarrel in the ...
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... equally unqualified to live in a close connexion with our fellow - beings , and in total separation from them ; we are attracted towards each other by general sympathy , but kept back from contact by private interests . Some ...
... equally unqualified to live in a close connexion with our fellow - beings , and in total separation from them ; we are attracted towards each other by general sympathy , but kept back from contact by private interests . Some ...
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... equally ignorant and equally pre- sumptuous , may easily be led to suppose , that the happi- ness of our world would be promoted by a different tend- ency of the human mind . It appears , indeed , to a slight and superficial observer ...
... equally ignorant and equally pre- sumptuous , may easily be led to suppose , that the happi- ness of our world would be promoted by a different tend- ency of the human mind . It appears , indeed , to a slight and superficial observer ...
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Page 366 - 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 365 - Reynolds. ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Achilles...
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 379 - 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 432 - thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent. The arts by which...
Page 318 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : — When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Page 245 - Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; 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.
Page 365 - She bow'd, obey'd him, and cut paper. This vexing him who gave her birth, Thought by all Heaven a burning...
Page 117 - to pass through things temporal," with no other care than " not to lose finally the things eternal," I look with such veneration as inclines me to approve his conduct in the whole, without a minute examination of its parts ; yet I could never forbear to wish, that while vice is every day multiplying...
Page 426 - this palace is the seat of happiness, where pleasure .succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Whatever nature has provided for the delight of sense, is here spread forth to be enjoyed. What can mortals hope or imagine, which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table, the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java, and sleeps upon the down of the cygnets of Ganges.