Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose WritingsJ. Blackwood, 1875 - 298 páginas |
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... endeavour to supply them by artificial excellence ; nor would such efforts be wholly without excuse , were they not often excited by ornamental trifles , which he that thus anxiously struggles for the reputation of possessing them would ...
... endeavour to supply them by artificial excellence ; nor would such efforts be wholly without excuse , were they not often excited by ornamental trifles , which he that thus anxiously struggles for the reputation of possessing them would ...
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... endeavour to fly from it , as children from their shadows ; always hoping for some more satisfactory delight from every new scene , and always returning home with disappointment and complaints . The gratifications which affluence of ...
... endeavour to fly from it , as children from their shadows ; always hoping for some more satisfactory delight from every new scene , and always returning home with disappointment and complaints . The gratifications which affluence of ...
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... endeavour too frequently to supply the sprightliness and bloom of youth by artificial beauty and forced vivacity . They hope to inflame the heart by glances which have lost their fire , or melt it by languor which is no longer deli ...
... endeavour too frequently to supply the sprightliness and bloom of youth by artificial beauty and forced vivacity . They hope to inflame the heart by glances which have lost their fire , or melt it by languor which is no longer deli ...
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... endeavour to rival . FIDDLE - PLAYING . THERE is nothing in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle : in all other things we can do something at first . Any man will forge a bar of iron , if you give him a ...
... endeavour to rival . FIDDLE - PLAYING . THERE is nothing in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing on the fiddle : in all other things we can do something at first . Any man will forge a bar of iron , if you give him a ...
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... endeavour tended , is a state of dreary desolation , in which the mind . looks abroad impatient of itself , and finds nothing but emptiness and horror . Yet such is the course of nature , that whoever lives long must outlive those whom ...
... endeavour tended , is a state of dreary desolation , in which the mind . looks abroad impatient of itself , and finds nothing but emptiness and horror . Yet such is the course of nature , that whoever lives long must outlive those whom ...
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amusements attain attention calamity censure character common commonly considered conversation CUTHBERT BEDE delight desire diligence Dryden easily easy EDWARD HITCHCOCK endeavour enjoy enjoyment envy equally evil excellence expect fame fancy favour Fcap fear feel felicity flatter folly fortune frequently FROST KING genius GEOFFREY CHAUCER give gratification happiness HENRY WARD BEECHER honour hope hour human HYDROPATHY idleness imagination inclination indulged intellectual Julius Cæsar kind Kind-The knowledge labour learning leisure lives Lord Anson Lovell's Court luxury mankind marriage ment mind misery nature necessary necessity neglect ness never Numerous Illustrations observed opinion ourselves pain pass passion Paternoster Row perpetual pleasing pleasure poet poetry Pope possession praise present pride produce reason riches SAMUEL JOHNSON seldom sentiments Shakespeare sometimes sorrow suffer superaddition superiority things thoughts tion truth vanity vigour virtue WASHINGTON IRVING wish writing young youth