The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 4Nichols, 1816 |
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... kind ; though they have not , perhaps , expected events equally strange , or by means equally in , adequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ...
... kind ; though they have not , perhaps , expected events equally strange , or by means equally in , adequate . When we pity him , we reflect on our own disappointments ; and when we laugh , our hearts inform us that he is not more ...
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... kind . I have heard how some have been pacified with claret and a supper , and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me sufficient reason to dread the united attacks of this ...
... kind . I have heard how some have been pacified with claret and a supper , and others laid asleep with the soft notes of flattery . Though the nature of my undertaking gives me sufficient reason to dread the united attacks of this ...
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... kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance , and is to be conducted nearly by the rules of comick poetry . Its province is to bring about natural events by easy , means , and to keep up curiosity without the help ...
... kind of writing may be termed not improperly the comedy of romance , and is to be conducted nearly by the rules of comick poetry . Its province is to bring about natural events by easy , means , and to keep up curiosity without the help ...
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... kind , though not the same degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to secure them from unjust prejudices , perverse opinions , and incongruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly written ...
... kind , though not the same degree of caution , is required in every thing which is laid before them , to secure them from unjust prejudices , perverse opinions , and incongruous combinations of images . In the romances formerly written ...
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... kind of violence , and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will , care ought to be taken , that , when the choice is unrestrained , the best exmples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so ...
... kind of violence , and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will , care ought to be taken , that , when the choice is unrestrained , the best exmples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so ...
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acquaintance amusements appearance beauty calamities censure challenge of honours common consider contempt conversation crimes danger daugh delight desire discover easily ELPHINSTON endeavour envy Epictetus equally errours evils excellence expected eyes favour fear felicity folly fortune frequently gain genius give happen happiness heart honour hope hour human Ianthe imagination incited inclined indulge kind knowledge labour lady learning lence Leniter less lest link-boys lives mankind marriage ment mind miscarriages misery modelling armies narchs nature neglect nerally ness never NUMB objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions perhaps Periander perpetual pity pleased pleasure portunities praise precepts Prudentius publick quire racter RAMBLER reason reflection regard rest retire rieties SATURDAY seldom shew sometimes soon sophism sorrow suffer sure ther thing thou thought Timocreon tion told TUESDAY vanity virtue wish write young
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Seite 349 - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge, and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude, or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity, and tempt him to conceal, if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another,...
Seite 22 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellencies in common with himself.
Seite 51 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Seite 378 - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure; we approach them with scruple...
Seite 56 - Yet by some such for 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, and succour...
Seite 239 - 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 377 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the. morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with...
Seite 239 - There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow. Life, in which nothing has been done or suffered to distinguish one day from another, is to him that has passed it, as if it had never been, except that he is conscious how ill he has husbanded the great deposit of his Creator.
Seite 255 - I espied on one hand of me a deep muddy river, whose heavy waves rolled on in slow, sullen murmurs. Here I determined to plunge, and was just upon the brink, when I found myself suddenly drawn back. I turned about and was surprised by the sight of the loveliest object I had ever beheld.
Seite 346 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.