The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 6Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... success , and with some pity on our miscarriages . Think on the misery of him who is condemned to cultivate barrenness and ransack vacuity ; who is obliged to continue his talk when his meaning is spent , to raise merriment without ...
... success , and with some pity on our miscarriages . Think on the misery of him who is condemned to cultivate barrenness and ransack vacuity ; who is obliged to continue his talk when his meaning is spent , to raise merriment without ...
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... success of some of these disputes , he has so clated his insolence , and , by reflection upon the general hatred which they have brought upon him , so irritated his virulence , that his whole life is spent in meditating or executing ...
... success of some of these disputes , he has so clated his insolence , and , by reflection upon the general hatred which they have brought upon him , so irritated his virulence , that his whole life is spent in meditating or executing ...
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... success . Cicero and Ovid have on very different occasions remarked how little of the honour of a victory be- longs to the general , when his soldiers and his for- tune have made their deductions ; yet why should Ovid be suspected to ...
... success . Cicero and Ovid have on very different occasions remarked how little of the honour of a victory be- longs to the general , when his soldiers and his for- tune have made their deductions ; yet why should Ovid be suspected to ...
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... success ; but , when war is once declared , volunteers flock to the standard , multitudes follow the camp only for want of employment , and flying squadrons are dispersed to every part , so pleased with an opportunity of mis- chief ...
... success ; but , when war is once declared , volunteers flock to the standard , multitudes follow the camp only for want of employment , and flying squadrons are dispersed to every part , so pleased with an opportunity of mis- chief ...
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... success ; they perceive no particular summons to composition , except the sound of the clock ; they have no other rule than the law or the fashion for admitting their thoughts or rejecting them ; and about the opinion of posterity they ...
... success ; they perceive no particular summons to composition , except the sound of the clock ; they have no other rule than the law or the fashion for admitting their thoughts or rejecting them ; and about the opinion of posterity they ...
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Page 394 - When common words were less pleasing to the ear, or less distinct in their signification, I have familiarized the 'terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas.
Page 99 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius merely by the event.
Page 166 - 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 21 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was , What from this day I shall be, Venus let me never see.
Page 385 - OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.
Page 387 - ... which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual resuscitation of desires which he feels himself unable to gratify.
Page 262 - The man who retires to meditate mischief, and to exasperate his own rage ; whose thoughts are employed only on means of distress, and contrivances of ruin ; whose mind never pauses from the remembrance of his own sufferings, but to indulge some hope of enjoying the calamities of another, may justly be numbered among the most miserable of human beings, among those who are guilty without reward, who have neither the gladness of prosperity nor the calm of innocence.
Page 264 - Of him that hopes to be forgiven, it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is therefore superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the Throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.
Page 100 - It ought to be the first Endeavour of a Writer to distinguish Nature from Custom, or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established...
Page 393 - confers a right of acting and speaking with less restraint, even when the wearer happens to be known." He that is discovered without his own consent may claim some indulgence, and cannot be rigorously called to justify those sallies or...