The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5G. Offor, 1818 |
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... idleness 10 Political credulity 11 Discourses on the weather 12 Marriages why advertised 13 The imaginary housewife 14 Robbery of time 15 Treacle's complaint of his wife 16 Drugget's retirement 17 Expedients of Idlers 18 Drugget ...
... idleness 10 Political credulity 11 Discourses on the weather 12 Marriages why advertised 13 The imaginary housewife 14 Robbery of time 15 Treacle's complaint of his wife 16 Drugget's retirement 17 Expedients of Idlers 18 Drugget ...
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... idleness 49 Marvel's Journey 50 Marvel paralleled 51 Domestick greatness unattainable 52 Self - denial necessary 53 Mischiefs of good company 54 Mrs. Savecharge's complaint 55 Author's mortifications 56 Virtuosos whimsical 57 Character ...
... idleness 49 Marvel's Journey 50 Marvel paralleled 51 Domestick greatness unattainable 52 Self - denial necessary 53 Mischiefs of good company 54 Mrs. Savecharge's complaint 55 Author's mortifications 56 Virtuosos whimsical 57 Character ...
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... idleness must be not only the general but the peculiar characteristic of man ; and perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle , that does by others what he might do himself , or sacrifices duty or pleasure to the ...
... idleness must be not only the general but the peculiar characteristic of man ; and perhaps man is the only being that can properly be called idle , that does by others what he might do himself , or sacrifices duty or pleasure to the ...
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... idleness which the Idler only can conceive . These miseries I have often felt and often bewailed . I know by expe- rience , how welcome is every avocation that summons the thoughts to a new image ; and how much languor and lassitude are ...
... idleness which the Idler only can conceive . These miseries I have often felt and often bewailed . I know by expe- rience , how welcome is every avocation that summons the thoughts to a new image ; and how much languor and lassitude are ...
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... with a soft stool for the elevation of the feet ! Thus , vacant of thought , do I indulge the live - long day . D VOL . V. You may define happiness as you please ; I embrace No. 9 . 25 THE IDLER . Progress of idleness.
... with a soft stool for the elevation of the feet ! Thus , vacant of thought , do I indulge the live - long day . D VOL . V. You may define happiness as you please ; I embrace No. 9 . 25 THE IDLER . Progress of idleness.
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acquaintance amusement Arab attention Bassora beauty business for pleasure Cairo censure CHAP common commonly considered critick curiosity danger delight desire diligence Ditto domestick dread Drugget easily easy elegance endeavour equal evil expected eyes favour fear folly fortune friends genius gout gratify happiness happy valley hear honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination Imlac inquiry intel knowledge labour lady learned lected less live look lost Louisbourg mankind marriage ment mind misery mistress Mohair morning nation nature Nekayah ness never Newmarket night observed once opinion pain passed passions Pekuah perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure praise prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess publick racters Rasselas reason resolved rich SATURDAY scrupulosity seldom shew sometimes soon suffer suppose surely talk tell thing Thomas Warton thought tion told truth virtue weary wife wish wonder write
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Page 293 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.
Page 343 - ... and their tongues with- censure. They are peevish at home, and malevolent abroad ; and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their business and their pleasure to disturb that society which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude : it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy...
Page 379 - He who has nothing external that can divert him, must find pleasure in his own thoughts, and must conceive himself what he is not ; for who is pleased with what he is ? He then expatiates in boundless futurity, and culls from all imaginable conditions that which for the present moment he should most desire, amuses his desires with impossible enjoyments, and confers upon his pride unattainable dominion. The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights,...
Page 311 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw everything with a new purpose; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Page 335 - ... that I was rather impelled by resentment than led by devotion into solitude. My fancy riots in scenes of folly, and I lament that I have lost so much, and have gained so little. In solitude, if I escape the example of bad men, I want likewise the counsel and conversation of the good. I have been long comparing the evils with the advantages of society, and resolve to return into the world to-morrow. The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.
Page 295 - Look round and tell me which of your wants is without supply : if you want nothing, how are you unhappy ?" " That I want nothing," said the prince, " or that I know not what I want, is the cause of my complaint...
Page 301 - I am afraid,' said he to the artist, 'that your imagination prevails over your skill, and that you now tell me rather what you wish than what you know. Every animal has his element assigned him; the birds have the air, and man and beasts the earth.
Page 311 - The business of a poet," said Imlac, " is to examine, not the individual, but the species ; to remark general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip, or describe the different shades in the verdure of the forest.
Page 196 - Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning...
Page 289 - The only passage by which it could be entered was a cavern that passed under a rock, of which it has long been disputed whether it was the work of nature or of human industry.