The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, المجلد 2Cowie, 1825 |
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الصفحة 5
... regard to the genius of our language . The Italians have little variety of termination , and were forced to con- trive such a stanza as might admit the greatest number of similar rhymes ; but our words end with so much diver- sity ...
... regard to the genius of our language . The Italians have little variety of termination , and were forced to con- trive such a stanza as might admit the greatest number of similar rhymes ; but our words end with so much diver- sity ...
الصفحة 9
... regard . His diction is indeed neither exact in itself , nor suited to the purpose of history . It is the effusion of a mind crowded with ideas , and desirous of imparting them ; and there- fore always accumulating words , and involving ...
... regard . His diction is indeed neither exact in itself , nor suited to the purpose of history . It is the effusion of a mind crowded with ideas , and desirous of imparting them ; and there- fore always accumulating words , and involving ...
الصفحة 27
... regard to the minuteness of decency , as well as to the dignity of science , I cannot forbear to lay before you a mode of persecution by which I have been exiled to taverns and coffee - houses , and de- terred from entering the doors of ...
... regard to the minuteness of decency , as well as to the dignity of science , I cannot forbear to lay before you a mode of persecution by which I have been exiled to taverns and coffee - houses , and de- terred from entering the doors of ...
الصفحة 32
... regard , and seldom perceive the diminution of their character while there is time to recover it . Nothing then remains but murmurs and remorse ; for if the spendthrift's poverty be embittered by the reflection that he once was rich ...
... regard , and seldom perceive the diminution of their character while there is time to recover it . Nothing then remains but murmurs and remorse ; for if the spendthrift's poverty be embittered by the reflection that he once was rich ...
الصفحة 33
... regard his endeavours , not his success , would have pre- served him from trivial elations and discouragements , and enabled him to proceed with constancy and cheerfulness , neither enervated by commendation , nor intimidated by censure ...
... regard his endeavours , not his success , would have pre- served him from trivial elations and discouragements , and enabled him to proceed with constancy and cheerfulness , neither enervated by commendation , nor intimidated by censure ...
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الصفحة 86 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
الصفحة 589 - Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning...
الصفحة 610 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
الصفحة 89 - Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all...
الصفحة 622 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
الصفحة 400 - ... performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions, and barren zeal.
الصفحة 466 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
الصفحة 216 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
الصفحة 216 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?
الصفحة 90 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid...