The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The RamblerW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... sometimes sold in a day m ̧ But Johnson wrote not for his own generation alone , but for posterity , and posterity will pay him his meed of immortality . The Rambler , with some trivial exceptions , is the work of a single and unaided ...
... sometimes sold in a day m ̧ But Johnson wrote not for his own generation alone , but for posterity , and posterity will pay him his meed of immortality . The Rambler , with some trivial exceptions , is the work of a single and unaided ...
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... sometimes known to try various con- tortions or inclinations of the body , flattering themselves that they can swallow in one posture that liquor which they find in another to repel their lips . Yet such folly is not peculiar to the ...
... sometimes known to try various con- tortions or inclinations of the body , flattering themselves that they can swallow in one posture that liquor which they find in another to repel their lips . Yet such folly is not peculiar to the ...
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... sometimes , raises an honest and useful emulation of dili- gence . It may be observed in general , that no trade had ever reached the excellence to which it is now improved , had its professors looked upon it with the eyes of indiffer ...
... sometimes , raises an honest and useful emulation of dili- gence . It may be observed in general , that no trade had ever reached the excellence to which it is now improved , had its professors looked upon it with the eyes of indiffer ...
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... sometimes happened in general combinations against merit , he cannot persuade the world to buy his works , he may present them to his friends ; and if his friends are seized with the epidemical infatuation , and cannot find his genius ...
... sometimes happened in general combinations against merit , he cannot persuade the world to buy his works , he may present them to his friends ; and if his friends are seized with the epidemical infatuation , and cannot find his genius ...
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... sometimes , not without understand- ing or virtue , and are , therefore , not always treated with the severity which their neglect of the ease of all about them might justly provoke ; they have obtained a kind of prescription for their ...
... sometimes , not without understand- ing or virtue , and are , therefore , not always treated with the severity which their neglect of the ease of all about them might justly provoke ; they have obtained a kind of prescription for their ...
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Page 405 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
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Page 437 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 406 - But thou hast promised from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake. And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 414 - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 423 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Page 424 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 425 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Page 323 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity ; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honour and fictitious benevolence.
Page 380 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.