The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Bell & Bradfute ... [and 3 others] and S. Campbell, New York, 1806 |
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... better have resigned my cause , without a struggle , to time and fortune , since I shall run the hazard of a new offence , by the necessity of asking hm why he is angry . Distress and terror often discover to us those faults with which ...
... better have resigned my cause , without a struggle , to time and fortune , since I shall run the hazard of a new offence , by the necessity of asking hm why he is angry . Distress and terror often discover to us those faults with which ...
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... better may be conceived . This is all the result , and this all is very little , To do the best can seldom be the lot of man : it is sufficient if , when opportunities are presented , he is ready to do good . How little virtue could be ...
... better may be conceived . This is all the result , and this all is very little , To do the best can seldom be the lot of man : it is sufficient if , when opportunities are presented , he is ready to do good . How little virtue could be ...
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... better of his leader than of himself . The French Count , who has lately published the Art of War , remarks how much soldiers are animated , when they see all their dangers shared by those who were born to be their masters , and whom ...
... better of his leader than of himself . The French Count , who has lately published the Art of War , remarks how much soldiers are animated , when they see all their dangers shared by those who were born to be their masters , and whom ...
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... better peopled , richer , or more powerful . The Satrapæ , among the Assyrians and Persians , were rewarded , if the lands in their go- vernments were well cultivated ; but were punished , if that part of their duty was neglected ...
... better peopled , richer , or more powerful . The Satrapæ , among the Assyrians and Persians , were rewarded , if the lands in their go- vernments were well cultivated ; but were punished , if that part of their duty was neglected ...
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... better regulated , and the state of vassal- age gradually declined , till it was entirely wore off under the reigns of Henry VII . and Edward VI . for they hurt the old nobility by favouring the commons , who grew rich by trade , and ...
... better regulated , and the state of vassal- age gradually declined , till it was entirely wore off under the reigns of Henry VII . and Edward VI . for they hurt the old nobility by favouring the commons , who grew rich by trade , and ...
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Página 210 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Página 177 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Página 189 - Tis much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
Página 339 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or...
Página 179 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Página 183 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Página 290 - ... with rancour, and their tongues with- censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains,...
Página 218 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice, till it was heard no •ore. The sides of the mountains were covered with trees, the banks of the brooks were diversified with flowers; every blast shook spices from the rocks, and every month dropped fruits upon the ground.
Página 248 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Página 175 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.