The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The RamblerJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 - English literature |
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... seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, is he w.is but seared ; and there arc thoufands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, is they may be allowed to be wits. It is theresore to be ...
... seldom heartily abhorred. The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, is he w.is but seared ; and there arc thoufands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, is they may be allowed to be wits. It is theresore to be ...
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... It may be laid down as a position which will seldom deceive, that when a man cannot bear his own company there is something wrong. He must fly' srom from himself, either because he seels a tediousness in lise K° $. THE RAMBLER. 53.
... It may be laid down as a position which will seldom deceive, that when a man cannot bear his own company there is something wrong. He must fly' srom from himself, either because he seels a tediousness in lise K° $. THE RAMBLER. 53.
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... seldom totally avoided by thofe, whofe judgment is much exercised upon the works of art. He has always a certain profpect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign Author of the universe, and probable hopes of making some ...
... seldom totally avoided by thofe, whofe judgment is much exercised upon the works of art. He has always a certain profpect of discovering new reasons for adoring the sovereign Author of the universe, and probable hopes of making some ...
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... seldom range beyond thofe entertainments and vexations, which solicit their attention by pressing on their senses. But there is an univerfal reason for some stated intervals of solitude, which the institutions of the church call upon me ...
... seldom range beyond thofe entertainments and vexations, which solicit their attention by pressing on their senses. But there is an univerfal reason for some stated intervals of solitude, which the institutions of the church call upon me ...
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... seldom willing to change it for any other on the same level : for whether it be that he, who follows an employment, made choice of it at first on account of its suitableness to his inclination ; or that when accident, or the ...
... seldom willing to change it for any other on the same level : for whether it be that he, who follows an employment, made choice of it at first on account of its suitableness to his inclination ; or that when accident, or the ...
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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.