The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... tion of sentimentality , no morbid and puling complaints , but the dignified and chastened expression of sorrow , which a mind , con- stituted as Johnson's , must have experienced on the departure of a mother . A heart , tender and ...
... tion of sentimentality , no morbid and puling complaints , but the dignified and chastened expression of sorrow , which a mind , con- stituted as Johnson's , must have experienced on the departure of a mother . A heart , tender and ...
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... tion , however successful . Night , though she divides to many the longest part of life , and to almost all the most innocent and happy , is yet unthankfully neglected , except by those who pervert her gifts . The astronomers , indeed ...
... tion , however successful . Night , though she divides to many the longest part of life , and to almost all the most innocent and happy , is yet unthankfully neglected , except by those who pervert her gifts . The astronomers , indeed ...
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... tion , if two to one against two , how many against five ? If confederacies were easy - useless ; -many oppresses many . - If possible only to some , dangerous . Principum amicitias . " No. 50. SATURDAY , APRIL 28 , 1753 . Quicunque 20 ...
... tion , if two to one against two , how many against five ? If confederacies were easy - useless ; -many oppresses many . - If possible only to some , dangerous . Principum amicitias . " No. 50. SATURDAY , APRIL 28 , 1753 . Quicunque 20 ...
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... tion , But vanity is sometimes excited to fiction by less visible gratifications : the present age abounds with a race of liars who are content with the consciousness of falsehood , and whose pride is to deceive others without any gain ...
... tion , But vanity is sometimes excited to fiction by less visible gratifications : the present age abounds with a race of liars who are content with the consciousness of falsehood , and whose pride is to deceive others without any gain ...
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... tion of Musarum ales , " the swan of the Muses , " the lan- guage of Horace becomes graceful and familiar ; and that such a compliment was at least possible , we know from the transformation feigned by Horace of himself . The most ...
... tion of Musarum ales , " the swan of the Muses , " the lan- guage of Horace becomes graceful and familiar ; and that such a compliment was at least possible , we know from the transformation feigned by Horace of himself . The most ...
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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
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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...