The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... lines , To have health , and fortune , and * pleasure , and never to be in debt , is all I desire , ' He was very covetous , and was pictured with his fingers hooked , so that he set his comedies at a high price . He lived about a ...
... lines , To have health , and fortune , and * pleasure , and never to be in debt , is all I desire , ' He was very covetous , and was pictured with his fingers hooked , so that he set his comedies at a high price . He lived about a ...
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... Boileau , by his polished lines , touched and retouched a thousand times , gained the preference above the works of the same Moliere , * Poet . v . 407 . VOL . III , E which are so natural , and produced by so fruitful GREEK COMEDY . 49.
... Boileau , by his polished lines , touched and retouched a thousand times , gained the preference above the works of the same Moliere , * Poet . v . 407 . VOL . III , E which are so natural , and produced by so fruitful GREEK COMEDY . 49.
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... line considers the promises , that he should be Cawdor and King , as equally unlikely to be accomplished . How can Macbeth be ignorant of the state of the Thane of Cawdor , whom he has just defeated and taken prisoner , or call him a ...
... line considers the promises , that he should be Cawdor and King , as equally unlikely to be accomplished . How can Macbeth be ignorant of the state of the Thane of Cawdor , whom he has just defeated and taken prisoner , or call him a ...
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... line the rebels With hidden help and vantage , or with both He labour'd in his country's wreck , I know not . Neither Rosse knew what he had just reported , nor Macbeth what he had just done . This seems not to be one of the faults that ...
... line the rebels With hidden help and vantage , or with both He labour'd in his country's wreck , I know not . Neither Rosse knew what he had just reported , nor Macbeth what he had just done . This seems not to be one of the faults that ...
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... line of this speech , which is certainly , as it is now read , unintelligible , an emendation has been attempted , which Mr. Warburton and Mr. Theobald have admitted as the true reading . Our duties Are to your throne and state ...
... line of this speech , which is certainly , as it is now read , unintelligible , an emendation has been attempted , which Mr. Warburton and Mr. Theobald have admitted as the true reading . Our duties Are to your throne and state ...
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Página 98 - 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 130 - 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. Out, out, brief candle!
Página 105 - 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 109 - Tis much he dares; And, to 5 that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
Página 299 - YE who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow ; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.
Página 417 - The prince heard this narration with very serious regard, but the princess smiled, and Pekuah convulsed herself with laughter. 'Ladies,' said Imlac, 'to mock the heaviest of human afflictions is neither charitable nor wise. Few can attain this man's knowledge, and few practise his virtues; but all may suffer his calamity. Of the uncertainties of our present state, the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason.
Página 138 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Página 103 - All things are hush'd as Nature's self lay dead, The mountains seem to nod their drowsy head : The little birds in dreams their songs repeat, And sleeping flowers beneath the night dews sweat. Even lust and envy sleep...
Página 418 - 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.
Página 418 - There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command. No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.