The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.Bell & Bradfute ... [and 3 others] and S. Campbell, New York, 1806 - English literature |
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... received a note , informing me , that I ought to have waited for a more correct edition . This injunction was obeyed . The edition ap- peared , and I supposed myself at liberty to tell my thoughts upon it , as upon any other book , upon ...
... received a note , informing me , that I ought to have waited for a more correct edition . This injunction was obeyed . The edition ap- peared , and I supposed myself at liberty to tell my thoughts upon it , as upon any other book , upon ...
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... received and expended , that the donors may judge how properly their benefactions have been applied Charity would lose its name , were it influenced by so mean a motive as human praise : it is there , fore not intended to celebrate by ...
... received and expended , that the donors may judge how properly their benefactions have been applied Charity would lose its name , were it influenced by so mean a motive as human praise : it is there , fore not intended to celebrate by ...
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... subsistence of her armies : though we also find in Livy , that the Romans received no inconsiderable quantities of corn from Sardinia . But , when Rome had made herself mistress of Carthage and Alex . andria 26 THOUGHTS ON AGRICULTURE .
... subsistence of her armies : though we also find in Livy , that the Romans received no inconsiderable quantities of corn from Sardinia . But , when Rome had made herself mistress of Carthage and Alex . andria 26 THOUGHTS ON AGRICULTURE .
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... received something from her hand ; and these call her by the title of GOOD FORTUNE and such as weep and mourn , are they from whom she has : resumed what she had before given them ; and these 60 THE PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE :
... received something from her hand ; and these call her by the title of GOOD FORTUNE and such as weep and mourn , are they from whom she has : resumed what she had before given them ; and these 60 THE PICTURE OF HUMAN LIFE :
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... receiving it , and the latter lament so much at the loss of it ? 0. C. All those things which the greater part of ... received any thing from FORTUNE ; and as they meet with them , they embrace them with the greatest fondness , attach ...
... receiving it , and the latter lament so much at the loss of it ? 0. C. All those things which the greater part of ... received any thing from FORTUNE ; and as they meet with them , they embrace them with the greatest fondness , attach ...
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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.