 He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day, will often bring to his task an attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an imagination overwhelmed, a mind distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren...  Select British Classics - Page 2401803Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...languishing with disease. He will labour on a barren topic, till it is too late to change it ; or in tns ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild...publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce. Rambler, vol. 4, p. 2.62. i llTERAKV PUBLICATIONS. If nothing may be published but what civil authority... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...with anxieties, a body lan" guishing with disease : he will labour on a " barren topic, till it is too late to change it ; " or, in the ardour of invention,...publication cannot suffer "judgment to examine or reduce." Of this excellent production the number sold on each day did not amount to five hundred : of course... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1809 - 428 pages
...distracled with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topick till it is too late to change it; or in the ardour of invention,...publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce." — Jobnmn. THE present number of the Ordeal will complete one volume of a work, which the editors... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...distracted withanxieties, a body languishing with disease ; he will labour on a barren topic, till it is too late to change it ; or, in the ardour of invention,...publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce." Of this excellent production the number sold on each day did not amount to five hundred ; of course... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topick till it is too late to change it ; or in the ardour of invention,...publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce."— Jotaion. THE present number of the Ordeal will complete one volume of a work, which the editors are... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1811 - 394 pages
...with anxieties, a body languishing with disease ; he will labour on a barren topic, till it is loo late to change it ; or, in the ardour of invention,...thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing law of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reducef." Yet in pe* The second letter in Ko.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 374 pages
...languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topick, till it is too late to change it ; or, hi the ardour of invention, diffuse his thoughts into wild exuberance, which the pressing law of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce."* Yet in perusing the RAMBLER, who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topick, till it is too late to change it ; or, in the ardour of invention,...Whatever shall be the final sentence of mankind, I have at-least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. I have kboured to refine our language to grammatical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...distracted with anxieties, a body languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topic, till it is too late to change it ; or, in the ardour of invention,...publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce." Of this excellent production the number sold on each day did not amount to five hundred : of course... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...distracted with anxieties, a foody languishing with disease : he will labour on a barren topic till it is too late to change it; or, in the ardour of invention,...have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms,... | |
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