The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].George Cowie, 1825 |
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... for want of durable materials , or of art to dis- pose them , see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion , and those few that for a while attract the eye R. II . of mankind , are generally weak in the foundation ,
... for want of durable materials , or of art to dis- pose them , see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion , and those few that for a while attract the eye R. II . of mankind , are generally weak in the foundation ,
الصفحة 2
... eye of vanity , how many ideal converts have elevated zeal , how often wit has exult- ed in the eternal infamy of his antagonists , and dogmatism has delighted in the gradual advances of his authority , the immutability of his decrees ...
... eye of vanity , how many ideal converts have elevated zeal , how often wit has exult- ed in the eternal infamy of his antagonists , and dogmatism has delighted in the gradual advances of his authority , the immutability of his decrees ...
الصفحة 3
... however small in itself , if placed near to the eye , will engross all the rays of light ; and a transaction , however trivial , swells into importance when it presses immediately on our atten- tion B 2 No. 106 . 3 THE RAMBLER .
... however small in itself , if placed near to the eye , will engross all the rays of light ; and a transaction , however trivial , swells into importance when it presses immediately on our atten- tion B 2 No. 106 . 3 THE RAMBLER .
الصفحة 8
... up in thought , my eyes were struck with the hospital for the reception of deserted in- fants , which I surveyed with pleasure , till , by a natural train of sentiment , I began to reflect on the THE RAMBLER . No. 107 .
... up in thought , my eyes were struck with the hospital for the reception of deserted in- fants , which I surveyed with pleasure , till , by a natural train of sentiment , I began to reflect on the THE RAMBLER . No. 107 .
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... eye of their tyrants , the bully and the bawd , who fatten on their misery , and threaten them with want or a gaol , if they show the least design of escaping from their bondage . " To wipe all tears from off all faces , " is a task too ...
... eye of their tyrants , the bully and the bawd , who fatten on their misery , and threaten them with want or a gaol , if they show the least design of escaping from their bondage . " To wipe all tears from off all faces , " is a task too ...
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الصفحة 154 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
الصفحة 279 - 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 156 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
الصفحة 155 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
الصفحة 21 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
الصفحة 228 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius merely by the event.
الصفحة 150 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
الصفحة 154 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
الصفحة 148 - But will arise and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall e're long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted Trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his Worshippers.
الصفحة 279 - ... 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...