The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols and Son, 1816 |
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... turn their thoughts back upon their old friends , they will find it diffi- cult to call a single man to remembrance , who appeared to know that life was short till he was about to lose it . It is observable that Horace , in his account ...
... turn their thoughts back upon their old friends , they will find it diffi- cult to call a single man to remembrance , who appeared to know that life was short till he was about to lose it . It is observable that Horace , in his account ...
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... turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spi- rits , and the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ...
... turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spi- rits , and the other recreates and revives them . Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain ...
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... of his mind is unknown or unregarded . It is natural to mean well , when only abstracted ideas of virtue are proposed to the mind , and no particular passion turns us aside from rectitude ; and so N ° 76 . 31 THE RAMBLER .
... of his mind is unknown or unregarded . It is natural to mean well , when only abstracted ideas of virtue are proposed to the mind , and no particular passion turns us aside from rectitude ; and so N ° 76 . 31 THE RAMBLER .
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Samuel Johnson Alexander Chalmers. particular passion turns us aside from rectitude ; and so willing is every man to flatter himself , that the difference between approving laws , and obeying them , is frequently forgotten ; he that ...
Samuel Johnson Alexander Chalmers. particular passion turns us aside from rectitude ; and so willing is every man to flatter himself , that the difference between approving laws , and obeying them , is frequently forgotten ; he that ...
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... turn all his force of argument against a stupid contempt of life , and rash precipi- tation into unnecessary danger ... turning the attention wholly from himself , and keeping it fixed invariably on the opposite fault ; and by shewing ...
... turn all his force of argument against a stupid contempt of life , and rash precipi- tation into unnecessary danger ... turning the attention wholly from himself , and keeping it fixed invariably on the opposite fault ; and by shewing ...
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Page 413 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 124 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 133 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 411 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Page 82 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 138 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low? The...
Page 105 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Page 107 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 48 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 82 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...