The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volumen3G. Cowie, 1825 |
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... least prevent misery , and apprize those who are ded by their passions , that they are on the brink of mediable calamity . ' leased , therefore , with the thought of recovering ers from that folly which has embittered my own days , ave ...
... least prevent misery , and apprize those who are ded by their passions , that they are on the brink of mediable calamity . ' leased , therefore , with the thought of recovering ers from that folly which has embittered my own days , ave ...
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... least are known to live only by an inert and sluggish loco - motive faculty , and may be said , like a wounded snake , to " drag their slow length along . " Man has been long known among philosophers by the appellation of the microcosm ...
... least are known to live only by an inert and sluggish loco - motive faculty , and may be said , like a wounded snake , to " drag their slow length along . " Man has been long known among philosophers by the appellation of the microcosm ...
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... least ashamed to acknowledge their be- nefactor . How much Statius considered the evils of life assuaged and softened by the balm of slumber , we may discover by that pathetic invocation , which he poured out in his waking nights ; and ...
... least ashamed to acknowledge their be- nefactor . How much Statius considered the evils of life assuaged and softened by the balm of slumber , we may discover by that pathetic invocation , which he poured out in his waking nights ; and ...
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... least not detested by the women ; the drunkard may easily unite with beings , devoted like himself to noisy merriments or silent insensibility , who will celebrate his victories over the novices of intemperance , boast them- selves the ...
... least not detested by the women ; the drunkard may easily unite with beings , devoted like himself to noisy merriments or silent insensibility , who will celebrate his victories over the novices of intemperance , boast them- selves the ...
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... least , that none should expose himself to unabated and unpitied infamy , without an adequate temptation ; and that to guilt so easily detected , and so severely punished , an adequate temptation would not readily be found . Yet so it ...
... least , that none should expose himself to unabated and unpitied infamy , without an adequate temptation ; and that to guilt so easily detected , and so severely punished , an adequate temptation would not readily be found . Yet so it ...
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Página 202 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Página 173 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Página 217 - ... is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Página 455 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Página 270 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress, are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Página 274 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know.
Página 507 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first £riends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. . He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was, a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Página 223 - ... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang...
Página 635 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Página 203 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.