The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of Samuel JohnsonG. Dearborn, 1837 |
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... Imagination , Addison learned languages . His own account of the cannot be called a philosophical critic . His mo- matter is , " When common words were less ral Essays are beautiful : but in that province pleasing to the ear , or less ...
... Imagination , Addison learned languages . His own account of the cannot be called a philosophical critic . His mo- matter is , " When common words were less ral Essays are beautiful : but in that province pleasing to the ear , or less ...
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... imagination ; and Rasselas , with all its splendour of eloquence , ex- hibits a gloomy picture . It should , however , be remembered , that the world has known the weeping as well as the laughing philosopher . The Dictionary does not ...
... imagination ; and Rasselas , with all its splendour of eloquence , ex- hibits a gloomy picture . It should , however , be remembered , that the world has known the weeping as well as the laughing philosopher . The Dictionary does not ...
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... IMAGINATION . 456 Translation of some Lines at the end of Baretti's Easy Phraseology I. To Mr. James Elphinston • II . to LIII . To Mrs. Thrale . LIV . To Mrs. Piozzi • IRENE , a Tragedy in five acts . 499 . Impromptu Translation of the ...
... IMAGINATION . 456 Translation of some Lines at the end of Baretti's Easy Phraseology I. To Mr. James Elphinston • II . to LIII . To Mrs. Thrale . LIV . To Mrs. Piozzi • IRENE , a Tragedy in five acts . 499 . Impromptu Translation of the ...
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... imagination , alive to the first objects of nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame , that are each of them attended with a ...
... imagination , alive to the first objects of nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame , that are each of them attended with a ...
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... imagination , Addison cannot be called a philosophical critic . His moral Es- says are beautiful ; but in that province nothing can exceed the Rambler , though Johnson used to say , that the Essay on " The Burthens of Mankind " ( in the ...
... imagination , Addison cannot be called a philosophical critic . His moral Es- says are beautiful ; but in that province nothing can exceed the Rambler , though Johnson used to say , that the Essay on " The Burthens of Mankind " ( in the ...
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Seite ix - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Seite ix - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Seite 211 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Seite 104 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Seite 97 - We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original.
Seite 104 - 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 bramble?, the glimmer of a taper.
Seite 83 - I was surprised, after the civilities of my first reception, to find, instead of the leisure and tranquillity, which a rural life always promises, and, if well conducted, might always afford, a confused wildness of care, and a tumultuous hurry of diligence, by which every face was clouded, and every motion agitated.
Seite viii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Seite vi - ... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his...
Seite 213 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself, My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.