The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... once , our earliest and most cherished associations . This tenderness of spirit seems ever to have actuated Johnson , and he is surely greatest when he breathes it forth over the sorrows and miseries of man . Even in his humorous papers ...
... once , our earliest and most cherished associations . This tenderness of spirit seems ever to have actuated Johnson , and he is surely greatest when he breathes it forth over the sorrows and miseries of man . Even in his humorous papers ...
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... once laid flat , and that effected in an instant , which its most mortal foe had for years assayed in vain . I shall pass over the accidents that attended attempts to scale windows , and endeavours to dislodge signs from their hooks 4 ...
... once laid flat , and that effected in an instant , which its most mortal foe had for years assayed in vain . I shall pass over the accidents that attended attempts to scale windows , and endeavours to dislodge signs from their hooks 4 ...
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... as the attraction grows more strong the nearer any body approaches the earth , when once a man begins to sink into poverty , he falls with ve- locity always increasing ; every supply is purchased at a No. 34 . 5 THE ADVENTURER .
... as the attraction grows more strong the nearer any body approaches the earth , when once a man begins to sink into poverty , he falls with ve- locity always increasing ; every supply is purchased at a No. 34 . 5 THE ADVENTURER .
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... once into air and emptiness , at the first attempt to put it into action . The different apprehensions , the discordant passions , the jarring interests of men , will scarcely permit that many should unite in one undertaking . Of a ...
... once into air and emptiness , at the first attempt to put it into action . The different apprehensions , the discordant passions , the jarring interests of men , will scarcely permit that many should unite in one undertaking . Of a ...
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... once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ? he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemp- tible , that even of those who have lost their ...
... once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ? he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and contemp- tible , that even of those who have lost their ...
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amusement appear Bassora beauty censure common considered conversation critick curiosity delight desire diligence discovered Ditto dread easily easy elegance endeavour equally evil excellence expected eyes fancy dances favour fortune friends genius gout gratified hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination inquiry JANUARY 27 kind knowledge labour lady learned less live look Louisbourg Lycoris mankind marriage ment mind Minorca misery mollia morning mutare nature ness never Newmarket observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions pastoral performance perhaps Peterhouse pleasing pleasure poet poetry praise present produce publick racter reader reason resolved rich SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments SEPTEMBER 22 Silenus sleep sometimes soon sophisms suffered surely talk tell terrour Theocritus thing Thomas Warton thought tion told truth ulmo Virgil virtue WARTON weary wish write
Popular passages
Page 277 - 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 193 - Wales : together with their provisional allowance during confinement ; as reported to the society for the discharge and relief of small debtors, in April, May, June, &c., 18oo. 4to., 18oo. An account of the rise, progress and present state of the society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales.
Page 289 - 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 341 - 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 thou hast gained power and preserved it, are to thee no longer necessary or useful ; impart to me the secret of thy conduct, and teach me the plan upon which thy wisdom has built thy fortune.
Page 277 - She bow'd, obey'd him, and cut paper. This vexing him who gave her birth, Thought by all Heaven a burning shame, What does she next, but bids on earth Her Burlington do just the same?
Page 342 - The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design. I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within. I regarded knowledge as the highest...
Page 168 - No species of literary men has lately been so much multiplied as the writers of news. Not many years ago the nation was content with one Gazette; but now we have not only in the metropolis papers for every morning and every evening, but almost every large town has its weekly historian, who regularly circulates his periodical intelligence...
Page 266 - 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 202 - Such is the condition of our present existence, that life must one time lose its associations, and every inhabitant of the earth must walk downward to the grave alone and unregarded, without any partner of his joy or grief, without any interested witness of his misfortunes or success.
Page 73 - 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...