The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Adventurer and IdlerW. Pickering, 1825 |
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... truth , and whom virtue itself cannot please by its naked dignity . But , by such , Johnson professed , that he had little expectation of his writings being perused . Keeping then our main object more immedi- ately in view , the ...
... truth , and whom virtue itself cannot please by its naked dignity . But , by such , Johnson professed , that he had little expectation of his writings being perused . Keeping then our main object more immedi- ately in view , the ...
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... to purify the passions , to give ardour to virtue and con- fidence to truth ° . " n Idler , No. 41 . • See Pursuits of Literature , Dialogue I. note . CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . THE ADVENTURER . NUMB xii PREFATORY NOTICES .
... to purify the passions , to give ardour to virtue and con- fidence to truth ° . " n Idler , No. 41 . • See Pursuits of Literature , Dialogue I. note . CONTENTS OF THE FOURTH VOLUME . THE ADVENTURER . NUMB xii PREFATORY NOTICES .
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... truth he speaks , is ne'er believ'd . WHEN Aristotle was once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ? he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and ...
... truth he speaks , is ne'er believ'd . WHEN Aristotle was once asked , what a man could gain by uttering falsehoods ? he replied , " Not to be credited when he shall tell the truth . " The character of a liar is at once so hateful and ...
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... truth is frequently violated ; and scarcely the most vigi- lant and unremitted circumspection will secure him that mixes with mankind , from being hourly deceived by men of whom it can scarcely be imagined , that they mean any injury to ...
... truth is frequently violated ; and scarcely the most vigi- lant and unremitted circumspection will secure him that mixes with mankind , from being hourly deceived by men of whom it can scarcely be imagined , that they mean any injury to ...
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... truth affords no gratifications , is generally inclined to seek them in false- hoods . It is remarked by Sir Kenelm Digby , " that every man has a desire to appear superior to others , though it were only in having seen what they have ...
... truth affords no gratifications , is generally inclined to seek them in false- hoods . It is remarked by Sir Kenelm Digby , " that every man has a desire to appear superior to others , though it were only in having seen what they have ...
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Página 378 - 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 97 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
Página 377 - ACHILLES' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing ! That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain...
Página 15 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Página 382 - Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot.
Página 391 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Página 452 - But when men have killed their prey," said the pupil, " why do they not eat it ? When the wolf has killed a sheep, he suffers not the vulture to touch it till he has satisfied himself. Is not man another kind of wolf ?" "Man," said the mother, " is the only beast who kills that which he does not devour, and this quality makes him so much a benefactor to our species.
Página 399 - ... it may perhaps be sometimes read as a model of a neat or elegant style, not for the sake of knowing what it contains, but how it is written ; or those that are weary of themselves may have recourse to it as a pleasing dream, of which, when they awake, they voluntarily dismiss the images from their minds. The examples and events of history press indeed upon the mind with the weight of truth ; but when they are reposited in the memory, they are oftener employed for show than use, and rather diversify...
Página 399 - Those relations are therefore commonly of most value in which the writer tells his own story. He that recounts the life of another, commonly dwells most upon conspicuous events, lessens the familiarity of his tale to increase its dignity, shews his favourite at a distance decorated and magnified like the ancient actors in their tragick dress, and endeavours to hide the man that he may produce a hero.
Página 238 - No species of literary men has lately been so much multiplied as the writers of news. Not many years ago the nation was content with one Gazette; but now we have not only in the metropolis papers for every morning and every evening, but almost every large town has its weekly historian, who regularly circulates his periodical intelligence...