The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols, 1816 |
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... effects . You have shewn yourself not ignorant of the value of those subaltern endowments , yet have hitherto neglected to recommend good - humour to the world , though a little reflection will shew you that it is the balm of being ...
... effects . You have shewn yourself not ignorant of the value of those subaltern endowments , yet have hitherto neglected to recommend good - humour to the world , though a little reflection will shew you that it is the balm of being ...
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... effect ; that compliance may provoke , relief may harass , and liberality distress . No disease of the mind can more fatally disable it from benevolence , the chief duty of social beings , than ill - humour or peevishness ; for though ...
... effect ; that compliance may provoke , relief may harass , and liberality distress . No disease of the mind can more fatally disable it from benevolence , the chief duty of social beings , than ill - humour or peevishness ; for though ...
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... effects , and to enjoy the profit of crimes without suffering the shame . Men are willing to try all methods of re- conciling guilt and quiet , and when their under- standings are stubborn and uncomplying , raise their passions against ...
... effects , and to enjoy the profit of crimes without suffering the shame . Men are willing to try all methods of re- conciling guilt and quiet , and when their under- standings are stubborn and uncomplying , raise their passions against ...
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... effects wider , as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught , but because it is committed with cool deliberation . By the instantaneous violence of desire , a good man may sometimes be ...
... effects wider , as a pestilence that taints the air is more destructive than poison infused in a draught , but because it is committed with cool deliberation . By the instantaneous violence of desire , a good man may sometimes be ...
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... effects produced immediately upon the mind ; nothing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that ...
... effects produced immediately upon the mind ; nothing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that ...
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Page 137 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 146 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 234 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 442 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Page 148 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Page 119 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 61 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 95 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 441 - I sight, confused with shame, How could I once look up, or heave the head, Who, like a foolish pilot, have...