The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 4Nichols, 1816 |
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... action , new excitements of fear , and allurements of desire . The end therefore which at present calls forth our efforts , will be found , when it is once gained , to be only one of the means to some remoter end . The natural flights ...
... action , new excitements of fear , and allurements of desire . The end therefore which at present calls forth our efforts , will be found , when it is once gained , to be only one of the means to some remoter end . The natural flights ...
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... action and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men , that the reader was in very lit- tle danger of making any applications to himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused ...
... action and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men , that the reader was in very lit- tle danger of making any applications to himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity ; and he amused ...
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... action ; we desire , we pursue , we obtain , we are satiated : we desire something else , and begin a new pursuit . If he had proceeded in his project , and fixed his habitation in the most delightful part of the new world , it may be ...
... action ; we desire , we pursue , we obtain , we are satiated : we desire something else , and begin a new pursuit . If he had proceeded in his project , and fixed his habitation in the most delightful part of the new world , it may be ...
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... action , and the test by which every thing pro posed to the judgment is rejected or approved . To facilitate this change of our affections , it is necessary that we weaken the temptations of the world , by retiring at certain seasons ...
... action , and the test by which every thing pro posed to the judgment is rejected or approved . To facilitate this change of our affections , it is necessary that we weaken the temptations of the world , by retiring at certain seasons ...
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... action would bear to his seeming possibili- ties of action , how many chasms he would find of wide and continued vacuity , and how many inter- stitial spaces unfilled , even in the most tumultuous hurries of business , and the most ...
... action would bear to his seeming possibili- ties of action , how many chasms he would find of wide and continued vacuity , and how many inter- stitial spaces unfilled , even in the most tumultuous hurries of business , and the most ...
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acquaintance amusements appearance beauty calamity censure challenge of honours common consider contempt danger daugh delight desire discover easily effects ELPHINSTON eminent endeavour envy Epictetus equally errour evils excellence expected eyes favour fear felicity folly force fortune frequently friends gain genius give happen happiness heart honour hope hour human Ianthe imagination incited indulge Jupiter kind knowledge labour Lacedemon lady learning lence lenitives less lest lives mankind marriage means Melanthia ment mind miscarriages misery nature neglect nerally ness never NUMB objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passions Penthesilea perhaps Periander perpetual perplexed pleased pleasure Plutus portunities praise precepts Prudentius publick quire racter RAMBLER reason reflection regard reproach reputation retire SATURDAY seldom sentiments servants shew sometimes soon sophism suffer ther thing thou thought tion told TUESDAY vanity virtue wish write young
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Seite 385 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Seite 388 - 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 but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. 'Let me remember (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.
Seite 20 - HE 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 414 - He was fresh and vigorous with rest ; he was animated with hope ; he was incited by desire ; he walked swiftly forward over the valleys, and saw the hills gradually rising before him. As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise, he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with...
Seite 53 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Seite 281 - If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion ; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.
Seite 417 - 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. "He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he...
Seite 418 - ... of obtaining the same end. 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. We thus enter the bowers of ease, and repose in the shades of security.
Seite 271 - There is certainly no greater felicity, 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.
Seite 417 - Obidah then related the occurrences of his journey, without any concealment or palliation. " Son," said the hermit, " 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...