The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen1A. V. Blake, 1846 |
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... fortune . A marriage took place , and to turr . his wife's money to the best advantage , he prc jected the scheme of an academy for education . Gilbert Walmsley , at that time Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of ...
... fortune . A marriage took place , and to turr . his wife's money to the best advantage , he prc jected the scheme of an academy for education . Gilbert Walmsley , at that time Registrar of the Ecclesiastical Court of the Bishop of ...
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... fortune and to fame . well - known Richard Savage , whose life was af- They brought with them genius , and powers of terwards written by Johnson , with great ele- mind , peculiarly formed by nature for the differ- gance , and a depth of ...
... fortune and to fame . well - known Richard Savage , whose life was af- They brought with them genius , and powers of terwards written by Johnson , with great ele- mind , peculiarly formed by nature for the differ- gance , and a depth of ...
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... Fortune now in store ? The listless will succeeds , that worst disease , The rack of indolence , the sluggish ease . Care grows on care , and o'er my aching brain Black melancholy pours her morbid train . 1 seek at midnight clubs the ...
... Fortune now in store ? The listless will succeeds , that worst disease , The rack of indolence , the sluggish ease . Care grows on care , and o'er my aching brain Black melancholy pours her morbid train . 1 seek at midnight clubs the ...
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... fortune . The history of Melissa . 158 110 Repentance stated and explained . Retire- ment and abstinence useful to repentance 173 111 Youth made unfortunate by its haste and 112 Too much nicely not to be indulged . The character of ...
... fortune . The history of Melissa . 158 110 Repentance stated and explained . Retire- ment and abstinence useful to repentance 173 111 Youth made unfortunate by its haste and 112 Too much nicely not to be indulged . The character of ...
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... fortune or nature have made his dependents . He may , by a steady perseverance in his ferocity , fright his children , and harass his servants , but the rest of the world will look on and laugh ; and he will have the comfort at last of ...
... fortune or nature have made his dependents . He may , by a steady perseverance in his ferocity , fright his children , and harass his servants , but the rest of the world will look on and laugh ; and he will have the comfort at last of ...
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Página xv - 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.
Página xv - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 215 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Página xxiii - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Página iv - He appears by bis 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 103 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Página 110 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Página xv - 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...
Página 110 - In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end. We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Página 78 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance : it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.