The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volumen3Nichols, 1823 |
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... force upon my present subject . Though ridicule , which is the business of comedy , be not less uniform in all times , than the passions which are moved by tragick compositions ; yet , if diversity of manners may sometimes disguise the ...
... force upon my present subject . Though ridicule , which is the business of comedy , be not less uniform in all times , than the passions which are moved by tragick compositions ; yet , if diversity of manners may sometimes disguise the ...
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... force of argument , we had never been told of the Trojan war . On the other side , Aristophanes is an author more considerable than one would imagine . The History of Greece could not pass over him , when it comes to touch upon the ...
... force of argument , we had never been told of the Trojan war . On the other side , Aristophanes is an author more considerable than one would imagine . The History of Greece could not pass over him , when it comes to touch upon the ...
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... force from his power of copying . " His Misanthrope is , in my opinion , the most " complete , and likewise the most singular cha- " racter that has ever appeared upon the stage : " but the disposition of his comedies is always de ...
... force from his power of copying . " His Misanthrope is , in my opinion , the most " complete , and likewise the most singular cha- " racter that has ever appeared upon the stage : " but the disposition of his comedies is always de ...
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... force and fire . Whe- ther they are right , or no , is another question ; all that I mean to advance is , that we are to fix it as a conclusion , that comick authors must grow obso- lete with the modes of life , if we admit any one age ...
... force and fire . Whe- ther they are right , or no , is another question ; all that I mean to advance is , that we are to fix it as a conclusion , that comick authors must grow obso- lete with the modes of life , if we admit any one age ...
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... force of time . The Muse of Moliere has almost made both of them forgotten , and would still be walking the stage , if the desire of novelty did not in time make us weary of that which we have too fre- quently admired . Those who have ...
... force of time . The Muse of Moliere has almost made both of them forgotten , and would still be walking the stage , if the desire of novelty did not in time make us weary of that which we have too fre- quently admired . Those who have ...
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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.