The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 4Nichols, 1816 |
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... seems to be considered as an hereditary privilege , to be enjoyed only by those who claim it from their alliance to the genius of Homer . The rules which the injudicious use of this pre- rogative suggested to Horace , may indeed be ap ...
... seems to be considered as an hereditary privilege , to be enjoyed only by those who claim it from their alliance to the genius of Homer . The rules which the injudicious use of this pre- rogative suggested to Horace , may indeed be ap ...
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... seems to beat the distant plain ; STATIUS . Hills , vales , and floods appear already crost , And ere he starts , a thousand steps are lost . Pope . THAT the mind of man is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it , but is ...
... seems to beat the distant plain ; STATIUS . Hills , vales , and floods appear already crost , And ere he starts , a thousand steps are lost . Pope . THAT the mind of man is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it , but is ...
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... so advantageous a prin- ciple , and more inclined to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery , than attentively to consider whe ther it leads to truth . This quality of looking forward into futurity , seems the 8 N ° 2 . THE RAMBLER .
... so advantageous a prin- ciple , and more inclined to pursue a track so smooth and so flowery , than attentively to consider whe ther it leads to truth . This quality of looking forward into futurity , seems the 8 N ° 2 . THE RAMBLER .
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Samuel Johnson Arthur Murphy. This quality of looking forward into futurity , seems the unavoidable condition of a being , whose motions are gradual , and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited , he must use means for the ...
Samuel Johnson Arthur Murphy. This quality of looking forward into futurity , seems the unavoidable condition of a being , whose motions are gradual , and whose life is progressive : as his powers are limited , he must use means for the ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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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...