The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The RamblerJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 - English literature |
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... pleasure, or to studies of better prospect. Numb. 2. Saturday, March 24, 1750. Start loco Htscit, ftrtunt vtftigia millt AnUsugam, absenttmqutftrit gravir ungula cams urn. Statius. Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing ...
... pleasure, or to studies of better prospect. Numb. 2. Saturday, March 24, 1750. Start loco Htscit, ftrtunt vtftigia millt AnUsugam, absenttmqutftrit gravir ungula cams urn. Statius. Th' impatient courser pants in every vein, And pawing ...
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... pleasure of wantoning in common topicks is so tempting to «. writer, that he cannot easily resign it ; a train of ... pleasures, and, instead of enjoying the blessings of lise, lets lise glide away in preparations to enjoy them ; it ...
... pleasure of wantoning in common topicks is so tempting to «. writer, that he cannot easily resign it ; a train of ... pleasures, and, instead of enjoying the blessings of lise, lets lise glide away in preparations to enjoy them ; it ...
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... pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. He that directs his steps to a certain point, must frequently turn his eyes to that place which he strives to reach ; he that undergoes the satigue of labour, must solace his weariness with ...
... pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. He that directs his steps to a certain point, must frequently turn his eyes to that place which he strives to reach ; he that undergoes the satigue of labour, must solace his weariness with ...
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... pleasure, or, perhaps, regard them with some kindness for being united with so mucli merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whofe endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any villany made persectly ...
... pleasure, or, perhaps, regard them with some kindness for being united with so mucli merit. There have been men indeed splendidly wicked, whofe endowments threw a brightness on their crimes, and whom scarce any villany made persectly ...
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... pleasure in the contemplation of this delightsul season ; but I have the satissaction of finding many, whom it can be no shame to resemble, insected with the same enthusiasm; for there is, I believe, scarce any poet of eminence, who has ...
... pleasure in the contemplation of this delightsul season ; but I have the satissaction of finding many, whom it can be no shame to resemble, insected with the same enthusiasm; for there is, I believe, scarce any poet of eminence, who has ...
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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.