The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen5Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... knowledge , may be numbered the exact calculations of the value of life ; but what- ever may be their use in traffick , they seem very little to have advanced morality . They have hitherto been rather applied to the acquisition of money ...
... knowledge , may be numbered the exact calculations of the value of life ; but what- ever may be their use in traffick , they seem very little to have advanced morality . They have hitherto been rather applied to the acquisition of money ...
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... Knowledge and genius are often ene- mies to quiet , by suggesting ideas of excellence , which men and the performances of men cannot attain . But let no man rashly determine , that his unwilling- ness to be pleased is a proof of ...
... Knowledge and genius are often ene- mies to quiet , by suggesting ideas of excellence , which men and the performances of men cannot attain . But let no man rashly determine , that his unwilling- ness to be pleased is a proof of ...
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... knowledge of nature , manners , and life , will perhaps incline you to pay some regard to the observations of one who has been taught to know mankind by unwelcome information , and whose opinions are the result , not of solitary ...
... knowledge of nature , manners , and life , will perhaps incline you to pay some regard to the observations of one who has been taught to know mankind by unwelcome information , and whose opinions are the result , not of solitary ...
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... knowledge , and more inclined to degrade their own character by cowardly sub- mission , than to overbear or oppress us with their learning or their wit . 1 From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk ...
... knowledge , and more inclined to degrade their own character by cowardly sub- mission , than to overbear or oppress us with their learning or their wit . 1 From these men , however , if they are by kind treatment encouraged to talk ...
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... knowledge and piety ; the other is a lieutenant of dragoons .. The parson made no dif- ficulty in the height of my elevation to check me when I was pert , and instruct me when I blundered ; and if there is any alteration , he is now ...
... knowledge and piety ; the other is a lieutenant of dragoons .. The parson made no dif- ficulty in the height of my elevation to check me when I was pert , and instruct me when I blundered ; and if there is any alteration , he is now ...
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Página 145 - 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.
Página 136 - 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.
Página 106 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Página 94 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place, For us too large, where thy abundance wants 730 Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
Página 441 - 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.
Página 94 - 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.
Página 436 - Dcpress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives.
Página 99 - Modesty itself, if it is praised, will be envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Página 60 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Página 119 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...