The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The RamblerJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 - English literature |
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... endeavour to conceal their passion till they believe their mistress wishes for the discovery. The same method, is it were pra£ti- cable to writers, would save many complaints of the severity of the age, and the caprices of criticism. If ...
... endeavour to conceal their passion till they believe their mistress wishes for the discovery. The same method, is it were pra£ti- cable to writers, would save many complaints of the severity of the age, and the caprices of criticism. If ...
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... endeavour the entertainment of my countrymen by a short esfay on Tuesday and Saturday, that I hope not much to tire those whom I shall not happen to please ; and is I am not commended for the beauty of my works, to be at least pardoned ...
... endeavour the entertainment of my countrymen by a short esfay on Tuesday and Saturday, that I hope not much to tire those whom I shall not happen to please ; and is I am not commended for the beauty of my works, to be at least pardoned ...
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... endeavour to fortisy myself against the insection, not without some weak hope, that my preservatives may extend their virtue to others, whose employment exposes them to the same danger : Laudis amort /tunes ? Sunt ctrta piacula, ju* le ...
... endeavour to fortisy myself against the insection, not without some weak hope, that my preservatives may extend their virtue to others, whose employment exposes them to the same danger : Laudis amort /tunes ? Sunt ctrta piacula, ju* le ...
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... endeavour to obviate the danger. My considerations shall, on this occasion, be turned on such as are burdensome to themselves merely because they want subjects for reflection, and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open, without ...
... endeavour to obviate the danger. My considerations shall, on this occasion, be turned on such as are burdensome to themselves merely because they want subjects for reflection, and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open, without ...
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... endeavour to fly from it, as children from their shadows ; always hoping for some more satissactory delight from every new scene, and always returning home with disappointment and complaints. Who can look upon this kind of insatuation ...
... endeavour to fly from it, as children from their shadows ; always hoping for some more satissactory delight from every new scene, and always returning home with disappointment and complaints. Who can look upon this kind of insatuation ...
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Page 388 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Page 416 - ... is consulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him to seek shelter in the grove, and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle.
Page 30 - Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Page 271 - 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 283 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 384 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Page 25 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Page 386 - ... the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick 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 287 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the -portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched; this is the condition of all below the stars, and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Page 383 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.