The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen3Nichols, 1823 |
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... afford no proof that Euripides or his predecessors wanted the esteem of Aristophanes or his age . The statues raised to their honour , the respect paid by the Athenians to their writings , and the careful pre- servation of those ...
... afford no proof that Euripides or his predecessors wanted the esteem of Aristophanes or his age . The statues raised to their honour , the respect paid by the Athenians to their writings , and the careful pre- servation of those ...
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... afford some opportunities of contributing to the welfare of mankind . Opulence and splendour are enabled to dispel the cloud of adversity , to dry up the tears of the widow and the orphan , and to increase the felicity of all around ...
... afford some opportunities of contributing to the welfare of mankind . Opulence and splendour are enabled to dispel the cloud of adversity , to dry up the tears of the widow and the orphan , and to increase the felicity of all around ...
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... afford satis- faction only to innocence . It is not the desire of new acquisitions , but the glory of conquests , that fires the soldier's breast ; as indeed the town is seldom worth much , when it has suffered the devastations of a ...
... afford satis- faction only to innocence . It is not the desire of new acquisitions , but the glory of conquests , that fires the soldier's breast ; as indeed the town is seldom worth much , when it has suffered the devastations of a ...
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... afford her . Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known ; and such is the state or folly of man , that it is known only by experience of its contrary : we who have long lived amidst the conveniences of a town immensely ...
... afford her . Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known ; and such is the state or folly of man , that it is known only by experience of its contrary : we who have long lived amidst the conveniences of a town immensely ...
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... afford him ; but hunger , wounds , and weariness , are real evils , though he believes them equally incident to all his fellow - creatures ; and when a tempest com- pels him to lie starving in his hut , he cannot justly be concluded ...
... afford him ; but hunger , wounds , and weariness , are real evils , though he believes them equally incident to all his fellow - creatures ; and when a tempest com- pels him to lie starving in his hut , he cannot justly be concluded ...
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Página 303 - 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 Abissinia.
Página 309 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.
Página 426 - Praise, said the sage, with a sigh, is to an old man an empty sound. I have neither mother to be delighted with the reputation of her son, nor wife to partake the honours of her husband.
Página 302 - Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week ; sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it orer. 1 Mr. Strahan, Mr. Johnston, and Mr. Dodsley, purchased it for a hundred pounds ; but afterwards paid him twentyfive pounds more, when it came to a second edition.
Página 305 - Such was the appearance of security and delight which this retirement afforded that they to whom it was new always desired that it might be perpetual, and, as those on whom the iron gate had once closed were never suffered to return, the effect of longer experience could not be known.
Página 304 - 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 332 - His character requires that he estimate the happiness and misery of every condition, observe the power of all the passions in all their combinations, and trace the changes of the human mind as they are modified by various institutions, and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence of decrepitude.
Página 422 - 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.
Página 318 - He that can swim needs not despair to fly ; to swim is to fly in a grosser fluid, and to fly is to swim in a subtler. We are only to proportion our power of resistance to the different density of matter through which we are to pass.
Página 319 - You, sir, whose curiosity is so extensive, will easily conceive with what pleasure a philosopher, furnished with wings and hovering in the sky, would see the earth and all its inhabitants rolling beneath him and presenting to him successively, by its diurnal motion, all the countries within the same parallel.