The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... opinion of others worthy her notice ; Letitia feemed to think of it only to declare , that " if all her hairs were worlds , " fhe fhould reckon them well loft for love ; " and Paftorella fondly conceived , that fhe could dwell for ever ...
... opinion of others worthy her notice ; Letitia feemed to think of it only to declare , that " if all her hairs were worlds , " fhe fhould reckon them well loft for love ; " and Paftorella fondly conceived , that fhe could dwell for ever ...
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... opinion of my life : but that there was one expedient remaining ; Mrs , Squeeze could influence her husband , and her good - will might be gained by a compliment . I waited that afternoon on Mrs. Squeeze , and poured out before her the ...
... opinion of my life : but that there was one expedient remaining ; Mrs , Squeeze could influence her husband , and her good - will might be gained by a compliment . I waited that afternoon on Mrs. Squeeze , and poured out before her the ...
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... opinion of their merit . " What I understand , ” faid Socrates , " I find to be excellent ; and , there- " fore , believe that to be of equal value which I cannot understand . " The reflection of every man who reads this paffage will ...
... opinion of their merit . " What I understand , ” faid Socrates , " I find to be excellent ; and , there- " fore , believe that to be of equal value which I cannot understand . " The reflection of every man who reads this paffage will ...
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... opinion that they would fall ; and I fold out " twenty thousand pounds in order to a purchase : they have now rifen unexpectedly ; and I make no doubt but at my return to London I fhall risk thirty thousand pounds among them again . " A ...
... opinion that they would fall ; and I fold out " twenty thousand pounds in order to a purchase : they have now rifen unexpectedly ; and I make no doubt but at my return to London I fhall risk thirty thousand pounds among them again . " A ...
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... opinion has of late been , I know not how , pro- pagated among us , that libraries are filled only with ufelefs lumber ; that men of parts and in need of no affiftance ; and that to spend life in poring upon books , is only to imbibe ...
... opinion has of late been , I know not how , pro- pagated among us , that libraries are filled only with ufelefs lumber ; that men of parts and in need of no affiftance ; and that to spend life in poring upon books , is only to imbibe ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Seite 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Seite 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Seite 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Seite 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Seite 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Seite 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Seite 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Seite 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.