The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... require a particular cultivation of the genius ; who- ever can attain to excellence , will be certain to en- gage a fet of readers , whom no other method would have equally allured ; and he that communicates truth with fuccefs , must be ...
... require a particular cultivation of the genius ; who- ever can attain to excellence , will be certain to en- gage a fet of readers , whom no other method would have equally allured ; and he that communicates truth with fuccefs , must be ...
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... require a continued profecution of the fame train of thought , fuch as is too often interrupted by the petty avocations of common life : fometimes , likewife , iz is neceffary , that a multiplicity of objects be at is 133 THE ADVENTURER ...
... require a continued profecution of the fame train of thought , fuch as is too often interrupted by the petty avocations of common life : fometimes , likewife , iz is neceffary , that a multiplicity of objects be at is 133 THE ADVENTURER ...
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... require or justify fingularity it is as hazardous for a moderate under- standing to ufurp the prerogatives of genius , as for a common form to play over the airs of uncontested beauty . The pride of men will not patiently endure to fee ...
... require or justify fingularity it is as hazardous for a moderate under- standing to ufurp the prerogatives of genius , as for a common form to play over the airs of uncontested beauty . The pride of men will not patiently endure to fee ...
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... requires a wider furvey of the world than human eyes can take ; the progress of reformation is gradual and filent , as the extenfion of evening fhadows ; we know that they were short at noon , and are long at fun - fet , but our senses ...
... requires a wider furvey of the world than human eyes can take ; the progress of reformation is gradual and filent , as the extenfion of evening fhadows ; we know that they were short at noon , and are long at fun - fet , but our senses ...
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... its full force , to require only a correfpondent term in order to finish a paragraph with elegance , and make one of its members 6 members anfwer to the other : but thefe deficiencies cannot N ° 138 . 159 THE ADVENTURER .
... its full force , to require only a correfpondent term in order to finish a paragraph with elegance , and make one of its members 6 members anfwer to the other : but thefe deficiencies cannot N ° 138 . 159 THE ADVENTURER .
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Pasajes populares
Página 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Página 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Página 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Página 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Página 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Página 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Página 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Página 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Página 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Página 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.