The Works of Samuel Johnson: The RamblerW. Pickering, London; and Talboys and Wheeler, Oxford, 1825 - English literature |
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... excellence must have ensued . And on the Rambler no labour was misapplied ; for its useful- ness is universal . There is scarcely a situation in life for the re- gulation of which some right rule may not thence be drawn . It does not ...
... excellence must have ensued . And on the Rambler no labour was misapplied ; for its useful- ness is universal . There is scarcely a situation in life for the re- gulation of which some right rule may not thence be drawn . It does not ...
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... excellence to which it is now improved , had its professors looked upon it with the eyes of indiffer- ent spectators ; the advances , from the first rude essays , must have been made by men who valued themselves for performances , for ...
... excellence to which it is now improved , had its professors looked upon it with the eyes of indiffer- ent spectators ; the advances , from the first rude essays , must have been made by men who valued themselves for performances , for ...
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... excellence , the negative virtues at least were in his power , and though he perhaps could not speak well if he was to try , it was still easy for him not to speak . In forming this opinion of the easiness of secrecy , they seem to have ...
... excellence , the negative virtues at least were in his power , and though he perhaps could not speak well if he was to try , it was still easy for him not to speak . In forming this opinion of the easiness of secrecy , they seem to have ...
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... excellence before us , we may be pardoned though we sink down to humbler virtue , trying , however , to keep our point always in view , and struggling not to lose ground , though we cannot gain it . It is recorded of Sir Mathew Hale ...
... excellence before us , we may be pardoned though we sink down to humbler virtue , trying , however , to keep our point always in view , and struggling not to lose ground , though we cannot gain it . It is recorded of Sir Mathew Hale ...
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... excellence , but the desire of pleasure ; to have extin- guished the flames of the lover , as well as of the patriot ; and threatens , in its further progress , to destroy all distinc- tions , both of rank and sex , to crush all ...
... excellence , but the desire of pleasure ; to have extin- guished the flames of the lover , as well as of the patriot ; and threatens , in its further progress , to destroy all distinc- tions , both of rank and sex , to crush all ...
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Page 440 - 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 198 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 433 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 421 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Page 309 - ... yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return after all his...
Page 39 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 284 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character, by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree, and ended with his funeral.
Page 283 - The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Page 420 - 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 drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son.
Page 306 - Here Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence, and that the plain was dusty and uneven, he resolved to pursue the new path, which he supposed only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.