The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].George Cowie, 1825 |
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... merit , or some praises of the magnanimity of those who encounter poverty and contempt in the cause of knowledge , and trust for the reward of their labours to the judgment and gratitude of posterity . An assurance of unfading laurels ...
... merit , or some praises of the magnanimity of those who encounter poverty and contempt in the cause of knowledge , and trust for the reward of their labours to the judgment and gratitude of posterity . An assurance of unfading laurels ...
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... merit at first , they are afterwards depressed below it ; nor can the brightest elegance of diction , or most artful subtilty of reasoning , hope for so much esteem from those whose re- gard is no longer quickened by curiosity or pride ...
... merit at first , they are afterwards depressed below it ; nor can the brightest elegance of diction , or most artful subtilty of reasoning , hope for so much esteem from those whose re- gard is no longer quickened by curiosity or pride ...
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... merit may be ratified by the con- currence of other suffrages ; and since guilt and infamy must have the same effect upon intelligences unable to pierce beyond external appearance , and influenced often rather by example than precept ...
... merit may be ratified by the con- currence of other suffrages ; and since guilt and infamy must have the same effect upon intelligences unable to pierce beyond external appearance , and influenced often rather by example than precept ...
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... . I presume that I should hitherto have injured the majesty of female virtue , had I not hoped to transfer my affection to higher merit . I am , & c . HYMEN EUS . No. 114. SATURDAY , APRIL 20 , 1751 . Audi 38 No. 113 . THE RAMBLER .
... . I presume that I should hitherto have injured the majesty of female virtue , had I not hoped to transfer my affection to higher merit . I am , & c . HYMEN EUS . No. 114. SATURDAY , APRIL 20 , 1751 . Audi 38 No. 113 . THE RAMBLER .
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... merits , will repay perusal by the valuable collection of opinions which it contains on this momentous and inter- esting subject . ED . contempt ; and that every man should determine the choice 44 N. 115 . THE RAMBLER .
... merits , will repay perusal by the valuable collection of opinions which it contains on this momentous and inter- esting subject . ED . contempt ; and that every man should determine the choice 44 N. 115 . THE RAMBLER .
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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...