The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.F.C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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Página 315 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Página 280 - He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Página 310 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 159 - Advertisements are now so numerous that they are very negligently perused, and it is therefore become necessary to gain attention by magnificence of promises, and by eloquence sometimes sublime and sometimes pathetick. Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. I remember a "wash-ball that had a quality truly wonderful — It gave an exquisite edge to the razor.
Página 123 - Mr. Sober's chief pleasure is conversation ; there is no end of his talk or his attention ; to speak or to hear is equally pleasing; for he still fancies that he is teaching or learning something, and is free for the time from his own reproaches. But there is one time at night when he must go home, that his friends may sleep; and another time in the morning, when all the world agrees to shut out interruption. These are the moments of which poor Sober trembles at the thought.
Página 166 - These are the great occasions which force the mind to take refuge in religion: when we have no help in ourselves, what can remain but that we look up to a higher and a greater power; and to what hope may we not raise our eyes and hearts, when we consider that the greatest power is the best. Surely there is no man who, thus afflicted, does not seek succour in the Gospel, which has brought “life and immortality to light.
Página 319 - ... ridiculous. Such faults may be said to be the ebullitions of genius ; but at least he had this merit, that he never was insipid, and whatever passion his works may excite, they will always escape contempt. What I have had under consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angela, the Homer of painting.
Página 124 - I have often teized him with reproof, and he has often promised reformation ; for no man is so much open to conviction as the Idler, but there is none on whom it operates so little. What will be the effect of this paper I know not ; perhaps he will read it and laugh, and light the fire in his furnace ; but my hope is, that he will quit his trifles, and betuke himself to rational and useful diligence.
Página 66 - ... irons are felt more acutely by the bone or tendon ; and whether the more lasting agonies are produced by poison forced into the mouth, or injected into the veins. It is not without reluctance that I offend the sensibility of the tender mind with images like these. If such cruelties were not practised, it were to be desired that they should not be conceived...
Página 240 - ... writers, whose opinions he impressed upon his memory by unwearied diligence; and when he returned with other wits to the town, was able to tell in very proper phrases, that the chief business of art is to copy nature; that a perfect writer is not to be expected, because genius decays as judgment increases ; that the great art is the art of blotting; and that, according to the rule of Horace, every piece should be kept nine years.