The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen9Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general cha- racter ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . A 2 In In this minute kind of History , the suc- cession ( iii )
... Miscellanies , containing a few dates and a general cha- racter ; but I have been led beyond my intention , I hope , by the honest desire of giving useful pleasure . A 2 In In this minute kind of History , the suc- cession ( iii )
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... pleasures , and a moderate ( 6 revenue below the malice and flatteries of for- " tune . " << So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though mo- tives are secret . Cowley certainly ...
... pleasures , and a moderate ( 6 revenue below the malice and flatteries of for- " tune . " << So differently are things seen ! and so differently are they shewn ! But actions are visible , though mo- tives are secret . Cowley certainly ...
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... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch- house in Chertsey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . ( 6 He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and king Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
... pleasure or suffer the uneasiness of solitude ; for he died at the Porch- house in Chertsey , in 1667 , in the 49th year of his age . ( 6 He was buried with great pomp near Chaucer and Spenser ; and king Charles pronounced , " That Mr ...
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... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
... pleasures in the minds of men , paid their court to temporary prejudices , has been at one time too much praised , and too much neglected at another . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has its ...
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... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
... pleasure of other minds : they never enquired what , on any occasion , they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil , impassive and at leisure ; as ...
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Página 93 - ... that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Página 417 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 77 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 98 - Those authors, therefore, are to be read at schools, that supply most axioms of prudence, most principles of moral truth, and most materials for conversation; and these purposes are best served by poets, orators, and historians.
Página 154 - We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night, Oft till the star that rose at evening bright Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.
Página 22 - Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.
Página 174 - This being necessary was therefore defensible; and he should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Página 21 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.
Página 104 - It were injurious to omit, that Milton afterwards received her father and her brothers in his own house, when they were distressed, with other Royalists. He published about the same time his Areopagitica, a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of unlicensed Printing.
Página 437 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.