The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 |
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... honours due to learning have been justly distributed by the decision of posterity . " The Battle of the Books " is so like the " Combat des Li- vres , " which the same questions concerning the ancients and moderns had produced in France ...
... honours due to learning have been justly distributed by the decision of posterity . " The Battle of the Books " is so like the " Combat des Li- vres , " which the same questions concerning the ancients and moderns had produced in France ...
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... honoured . There my informer often saw her ; and , I have reason to believe , used his utmost endeavours to relieve , support , and amuse her , in this sad situation . " One little incident he told me of on that occasion , I think , I ...
... honoured . There my informer often saw her ; and , I have reason to believe , used his utmost endeavours to relieve , support , and amuse her , in this sad situation . " One little incident he told me of on that occasion , I think , I ...
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... honoured by the populace as the champion , patron , and instructor of Ireland ; and gained such power as , considered both in its extent and duration , scarcely any man has ever enjoyed without greater wealth or higher station . He was ...
... honoured by the populace as the champion , patron , and instructor of Ireland ; and gained such power as , considered both in its extent and duration , scarcely any man has ever enjoyed without greater wealth or higher station . He was ...
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... honoured . What were her claims to this eccentric tenderness , by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her , curiosity will in- juire ; but how shall it be gratified ? Swift was a lover ; his tes- timony may be suspected ...
... honoured . What were her claims to this eccentric tenderness , by which the laws of nature were violated to retain her , curiosity will in- juire ; but how shall it be gratified ? Swift was a lover ; his tes- timony may be suspected ...
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... honour of the clergy ; of the dissen- ters he did not wish to infringe the toleration , but he opposed their encroachments . To his duty as dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy : and it ...
... honour of the clergy ; of the dissen- ters he did not wish to infringe the toleration , but he opposed their encroachments . To his duty as dean he was very attentive . He managed the revenues of his church with exact economy : and it ...
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الصفحة 80 - Who but must laugh if such a man there be ? Who would not weep if Atticus were he?
الصفحة 127 - Of manners gentle, of affections mild ; In wit, a man ; simplicity, a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage, Form'd to delight at once and lash the age : Above temptation in a low estate, And uncorrupted...
الصفحة 123 - Statesman \ yet friend to Truth! of soul sincere, ' In action faithful, and in honour clear ; 'Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, 'Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend ; 'Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, 'And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
الصفحة 117 - To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only shew the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us...
الصفحة 160 - The latter part of his life cannot be remembered but with pity and sadness. He languished some years under that depression of mind which enchains the faculties without destroying them, and leaves reason the knowledge of right without the power of pursuing it. These clouds which he perceived gathering on his intellects, he endeavoured to disperse by travel, and passed into France : but found himself constrained to yield to his malady, and returned.
الصفحة 165 - Whether to plant a walk in undulating curves, and to place a bench at every turn where there is an object to catch the view; to make water run where it will be heard, and to stagnate where it will be seen...
الصفحة 50 - The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O Goddess, sing; That wrath which hurl'd to Pluto's gloomy reign The souls of mighty chiefs untimely slain. The stern Pelides...
الصفحة 226 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
الصفحة 221 - ... men are very prone to believe what they do not understand; fourthly, they will believe any thing at all, provided they are under no obligation to believe it...
الصفحة 66 - This gave Mr. Pope the thought that he had now some opportunity of doing good, by detecting and dragging into light these common enemies of mankind; since, to invalidate this universal slander, it sufficed to show what contemptible men were the authors of it.