The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Bell & Bradfute ... [and 3 others] and S. Campbell, New York, 1806 - English literature |
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... believe it not to be poison : that if it dries the fibres , it cannot soften them ; that if it constringes , it can- not relax . I have modestly doubted whether it has diminished the strength of our men , or the beauty of our women ...
... believe it not to be poison : that if it dries the fibres , it cannot soften them ; that if it constringes , it can- not relax . I have modestly doubted whether it has diminished the strength of our men , or the beauty of our women ...
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... believe it , that the English and Dutch consume more Tea than the vast empire of China ? Between the writer and the man I did not at that time consider the distinction . The writer I found not of more than mortal might , and I did not ...
... believe it , that the English and Dutch consume more Tea than the vast empire of China ? Between the writer and the man I did not at that time consider the distinction . The writer I found not of more than mortal might , and I did not ...
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... believe their power is such , as the Journalist may defy without enthusiasm . The love of our country , when it rises to enthusiasm , is an ambiguous and uncertain virtue : when a man is enthusiastick , he ceases to be reasonable , and ...
... believe their power is such , as the Journalist may defy without enthusiasm . The love of our country , when it rises to enthusiasm , is an ambiguous and uncertain virtue : when a man is enthusiastick , he ceases to be reasonable , and ...
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... that has the merit of meaning well ; and still believe him to be a man whose failings may be justly pardoned for his virtues . INTRODUCTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO MANAGE 8 REPLY TO A PAPER , & c .
... that has the merit of meaning well ; and still believe him to be a man whose failings may be justly pardoned for his virtues . INTRODUCTION TO THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO MANAGE 8 REPLY TO A PAPER , & c .
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... If in opposition to these arguments , and in de- fiance at once of right reason and general authority , the elliptical arch should at last be chosen , what will the world believe , than that some other motive 18 CONSIDERATIONS ON THE.
... If in opposition to these arguments , and in de- fiance at once of right reason and general authority , the elliptical arch should at last be chosen , what will the world believe , than that some other motive 18 CONSIDERATIONS ON THE.
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Page 210 - She should have died hereafter ; There would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death.
Page 177 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Page 189 - Tis much he dares ; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.
Page 339 - In time some particular train of ideas fixes the attention; all other intellectual gratifications are rejected; the mind, in weariness or leisure, recurs constantly to the favourite conception, and feasts on the luscious falsehood whenever she is offended with the bitterness of truth. By degrees the reign of fancy is confirmed; she grows first imperious, and in time despotic. Then fictions begin to operate as realities, false opinions fasten upon the mind, and life passes in dreams of rapture or...
Page 179 - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty ! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it...
Page 183 - Pale Hecate's offerings; and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my whereabout And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 290 - ... with rancour, and their tongues with- censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains,...
Page 218 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice, till it was heard no •ore. 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.
Page 248 - He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
Page 175 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.