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... ness ; and to that circumstance Johnson's known dislike of Swift has been often imputed . It is mortifying to pursue a man of merit through all his difficulties ; and yet this narra- tive must be , through many following years , the ...
... ness ; and to that circumstance Johnson's known dislike of Swift has been often imputed . It is mortifying to pursue a man of merit through all his difficulties ; and yet this narra- tive must be , through many following years , the ...
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... maintain the dignity of virtue , I will not now degrade by the mean- ness of dedication . " Such a man , when he had cock - boats to tow me into harbour ? " He had finished his Dictionary , " not , " as he GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . Xui.
... maintain the dignity of virtue , I will not now degrade by the mean- ness of dedication . " Such a man , when he had cock - boats to tow me into harbour ? " He had finished his Dictionary , " not , " as he GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . Xui.
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... ness of Johnson's heart , that he then declared , that " those debates were the only parts of his writings which gave him any compunction : but that at the time he wrote them he had no conception that he was imposing upon the world ...
... ness of Johnson's heart , that he then declared , that " those debates were the only parts of his writings which gave him any compunction : but that at the time he wrote them he had no conception that he was imposing upon the world ...
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... ness even for men by whom no tenderness hath been shown . The past is without remedy , and shall be without resentment . But those who have been thus busy with their sickies in the fields of their neighbours , are henceforward to take ...
... ness even for men by whom no tenderness hath been shown . The past is without remedy , and shall be without resentment . But those who have been thus busy with their sickies in the fields of their neighbours , are henceforward to take ...
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... ness was within , that his own passions were not When a king asked Euclid , the mathemati sufficiently regulated , and that he was harassed cian , whether he could not explain his art to him by his own impatience , which could never be ...
... ness was within , that his own passions were not When a king asked Euclid , the mathemati sufficiently regulated , and that he was harassed cian , whether he could not explain his art to him by his own impatience , which could never be ...
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Página xiv - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could ; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Página xiv - Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página xiv - I have been lately informed by the proprietor of ' The World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not...
Página 102 - If we owe regard to the memory of the dead, there is yet more respect to be paid to knowledge, to virtue, and to truth.
Página 109 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Página iii - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Página 109 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errors, and that he who implores strength and courage from above, shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. Go now, my son, to thy repose, commit thyself to the care of Omnipotence, and when the morning calls again to toil, begin anew thy journey and thy life.
Página 101 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Página 102 - Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion. Thus the story of Melancthon affords a striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us that, when he made an appointment, he- expected not only the hour but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspense...
Página xiv - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,