The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 5Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... labour of deserving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . All therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can en- tertain upon easy terms , and who will ...
... labour of deserving it , in which the most elevated mind is willing to descend , and the most active to be at rest . All therefore are at some hour or another fond of companions whom they can en- tertain upon easy terms , and who will ...
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... labour of contest , too ten- der for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little restraint enrages , and a little difficulty per- plexes him ; having been ...
... labour of contest , too ten- der for the asperity of contradiction , and too delicate for the coarseness of truth ; a little opposition offends , a little restraint enrages , and a little difficulty per- plexes him ; having been ...
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... labours of duty , and the sorrows of repentance . For this pùr- pose every seducement and fallacy is sought , the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end ; and the last hour steals on unperceived , while the ...
... labours of duty , and the sorrows of repentance . For this pùr- pose every seducement and fallacy is sought , the hopes still rest upon some new experiment till life is at an end ; and the last hour steals on unperceived , while the ...
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... labour . Gloom and silence produce composure of mind , and concentra- tion of ideas ; and the privation of external pleasure naturally causes an effort to find entertainment within . This is the time in which those whom literature ...
... labour . Gloom and silence produce composure of mind , and concentra- tion of ideas ; and the privation of external pleasure naturally causes an effort to find entertainment within . This is the time in which those whom literature ...
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... labours have procured to my country ; and therefore I shall tell you that Britain can , by my care , boast of a snail that has crawled upon the wall of China ; a humming bird which an American prin- cess wore in her ear ; the tooth of ...
... labours have procured to my country ; and therefore I shall tell you that Britain can , by my care , boast of a snail that has crawled upon the wall of China ; a humming bird which an American prin- cess wore in her ear ; the tooth of ...
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Page 145 - 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 136 - 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 106 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 94 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place, For us too large, where thy abundance wants 730 Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground.
Page 441 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 94 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 436 - Dcpress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd ; And, though her body die, her fame survives A secular bird ages of lives.
Page 99 - Modesty itself, if it is praised, will be envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Page 60 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 119 - Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes, That witnessed huge affliction and dismay, Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate. At once, as far as Angels...