The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, المجلد 3G. Cowie, 1825 |
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... equal pain ! As I entered into the world very young , with an eleg > erson and a large estate , it was not long before I dis angled myself from the shackles of religion ; for I v letermined to the pursuit of pleasure , which according ...
... equal pain ! As I entered into the world very young , with an eleg > erson and a large estate , it was not long before I dis angled myself from the shackles of religion ; for I v letermined to the pursuit of pleasure , which according ...
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... equal value which I cannot understand . " The reflection of every man who reads this passage will suggest to him the difference between the practice of Socrates , and that of modern criticks : Socrates , who had , by long observation ...
... equal value which I cannot understand . " The reflection of every man who reads this passage will suggest to him the difference between the practice of Socrates , and that of modern criticks : Socrates , who had , by long observation ...
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... to pay the debts which he does not owe : nor can I look with equal hatred upon him , who , at the hazard of his life , holds out his pistol and demands my purse , as on him who plunders under shelter of 38 N ° 62 . THE ADVENTURER .
... to pay the debts which he does not owe : nor can I look with equal hatred upon him , who , at the hazard of his life , holds out his pistol and demands my purse , as on him who plunders under shelter of 38 N ° 62 . THE ADVENTURER .
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... equal to great undertakings , while we leave others in possession of the same abilities , cannot with equal justice provoke censure . It must be confessed , that self - love may dispose us to decide too hastily in our own favour : but ...
... equal to great undertakings , while we leave others in possession of the same abilities , cannot with equal justice provoke censure . It must be confessed , that self - love may dispose us to decide too hastily in our own favour : but ...
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... equal to common intellects ; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle , who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge , and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities . Persius has ...
... equal to common intellects ; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle , who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge , and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities . Persius has ...
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الصفحة 202 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
الصفحة 173 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
الصفحة 217 - ... is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
الصفحة 455 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
الصفحة 270 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress, are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
الصفحة 274 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know.
الصفحة 507 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first £riends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. . He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was, a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
الصفحة 223 - ... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang...
الصفحة 635 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
الصفحة 203 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.