The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 2Cowie, 1825 |
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... necessary , but that I should , by splendour of dress , proclaim my re - union with a higher rank . I , therefore , sent for my tailor ; ordered a suit with twice the usual quantity of lace ; and that I might not let my persecutors ...
... necessary , but that I should , by splendour of dress , proclaim my re - union with a higher rank . I , therefore , sent for my tailor ; ordered a suit with twice the usual quantity of lace ; and that I might not let my persecutors ...
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... necessary to struggle with habit , and abandon fashion . To these many arts of spending time might be recom- mended , which would neither sadden the present hour with weariness , nor the future with repentance . It would seem impossible ...
... necessary to struggle with habit , and abandon fashion . To these many arts of spending time might be recom- mended , which would neither sadden the present hour with weariness , nor the future with repentance . It would seem impossible ...
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... necessary , that the personages should be either mean or corrupt , nor always requisite , that the action should be trivial , nor ever , that it should be fictitious . If the two kinds of dramatick poetry had been defined only by their ...
... necessary , that the personages should be either mean or corrupt , nor always requisite , that the action should be trivial , nor ever , that it should be fictitious . If the two kinds of dramatick poetry had been defined only by their ...
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... necessary to representations of common life , and degenerates too much towards buffoonery and farce . The same play affords a smart return of the general to the emperour , who , enforcing his orders for the death of Sebastian , vents ...
... necessary to representations of common life , and degenerates too much towards buffoonery and farce . The same play affords a smart return of the general to the emperour , who , enforcing his orders for the death of Sebastian , vents ...
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... necessary , I think you cannot better direct your admonitions than against superfluous and panick terrours . Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil ; but its duty , like that of other passions , is not to overbear reason ...
... necessary , I think you cannot better direct your admonitions than against superfluous and panick terrours . Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil ; but its duty , like that of other passions , is not to overbear reason ...
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Page 86 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Page 589 - Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning...
Page 610 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 89 - Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all...
Page 622 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 400 - ... performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions, and barren zeal.
Page 466 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Page 216 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 216 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?
Page 90 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid...