The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ridi- culous than ourselves , except that he tells what we have ...
... equally strange , or by means equally inadequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ridi- culous than ourselves , except that he tells what we have ...
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... equally pleased with their own productions , equally caressed by their patrons , and flattered by their friends . But though it should happen that an author is ca- pable of excelling , yet his merit may pass without notice , huddled in ...
... equally pleased with their own productions , equally caressed by their patrons , and flattered by their friends . But though it should happen that an author is ca- pable of excelling , yet his merit may pass without notice , huddled in ...
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... equally mingled , that CRITICISM stood with her sceptre poised in her hand , in doubt whether to shed lethe , or am- brosia , upon them . These at last increased to so great a number , that she was weary of attending such doubtful ...
... equally mingled , that CRITICISM stood with her sceptre poised in her hand , in doubt whether to shed lethe , or am- brosia , upon them . These at last increased to so great a number , that she was weary of attending such doubtful ...
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... equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors , de- liverers and persecutors , as with beings of another spe- cies , whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own , and who had ...
... equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors , de- liverers and persecutors , as with beings of another spe- cies , whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own , and who had ...
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... equally conspicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight , and are led by degrees to interest ourselves in their favour , we lose the abhorrence of their faults , be- cause they do not hinder our pleasure ...
... equally conspicuous ; and as we accompany them through their adventures with delight , and are led by degrees to interest ourselves in their favour , we lose the abhorrence of their faults , be- cause they do not hinder our pleasure ...
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acquaintance advantage amusements appearance beauty calamity caution censure challenge of honours common consider contempt crimes danger delight desire discover easily ELPHINSTON endeavour envy Epictetus equally errour evil excellence expected eyes fame faults favour fear felicity folly fortune frequently friends gain gayety genius give happen happiness heart hinder honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined indulge Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind knowledge labour lady learning lect lenitives less lest lives mankind marriage means ment mind miscarriage misery moral nature neglect nerally ness never NUMB objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passions perhaps Periander perpetual pleasing pleasure praise precepts produce Prudentius publick racter RAMBLER reason reflection regard reproach reputation retire SATURDAY seldom sentiments soon sophism stone of Sisyphus suffer thing thought tion topicks TUESDAY vanity virtue wish write
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 267 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Seite 431 - 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.
Seite 415 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered . through the wild without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Seite 416 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Seite 20 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Seite 381 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Seite 57 - Yet by some such fortuitous tuitous liquefaction was mankind taught to procure a body at once in a high degree solid and transparent, which might admit the light of the sun, and exclude the violence of the wind ; which might extend the sight of the philosopher to new ranges of existence, and charm him at one time with the unbounded extent of the material creation, and at another with the endless subordination of animal life ; and, what is yet of more importance, might supply the decays of nature,...
Seite 386 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Seite 21 - Why this wild strain of imagination found reception so long in polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that 'while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...
Seite 26 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.