The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 2Cowie, 1825 |
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... tion , and is not only in danger of those inconsistencies , to which every one is exposed by departure from truth ; but may be censured as well for deficiencies of matter , as for irregularity of disposition , or impropriety of ornament ...
... tion , and is not only in danger of those inconsistencies , to which every one is exposed by departure from truth ; but may be censured as well for deficiencies of matter , as for irregularity of disposition , or impropriety of ornament ...
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... tion , and an abrupt departure ; and in four mornings was able to turn upon my heel , with so much levity and sprightliness , that I made no doubt of discouraging a publick attempts upon my dignity . I therefore issued forth N ° 123 ...
... tion , and an abrupt departure ; and in four mornings was able to turn upon my heel , with so much levity and sprightliness , that I made no doubt of discouraging a publick attempts upon my dignity . I therefore issued forth N ° 123 ...
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... tion ; without any retreat , but to the gloom of solitude . where they will yet find greater inconveniencies , and must learn , however unwillingly , to endure themselves . pro- In winter , the life of the polite and gay may be said to ...
... tion ; without any retreat , but to the gloom of solitude . where they will yet find greater inconveniencies , and must learn , however unwillingly , to endure themselves . pro- In winter , the life of the polite and gay may be said to ...
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... tion . Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity ; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects ; and every moment produces some- thing new to him , who has quickened his faculties by diligent ...
... tion . Novelty is indeed necessary to preserve eagerness and alacrity ; but art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects ; and every moment produces some- thing new to him , who has quickened his faculties by diligent ...
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... tion over half the commercial world , assembles the trading companies in councils and committees , and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers , is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference . An affair of love ...
... tion over half the commercial world , assembles the trading companies in councils and committees , and shakes the nerves of a thousand stockjobbers , is read by the landlord and the farmer with frigid indifference . An affair of love ...
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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.
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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...
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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...