The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 5Nichols, 1816 |
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... eye gazes awhile on eminences glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spi- rits , and the other ...
... eye gazes awhile on eminences glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance ; the one overpowers weak spi- rits , and the other ...
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... eye and voice of the publick should be employed on any rather than on themselves . All these artifices , and a thousand others equally vain and equally despicable , are incited by that conviction of the deformity of wickedness , from ...
... eye and voice of the publick should be employed on any rather than on themselves . All these artifices , and a thousand others equally vain and equally despicable , are incited by that conviction of the deformity of wickedness , from ...
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... eyes ; and as there has never been a time of such general felicity , but that many have failed to obtain the rewards to which they had , in their own judgment , a just claim , some offended writer has always declaimed , in the rage of ...
... eyes ; and as there has never been a time of such general felicity , but that many have failed to obtain the rewards to which they had , in their own judgment , a just claim , some offended writer has always declaimed , in the rage of ...
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... eye , for defects and deviations which , in souls less enlightened , may be guiltless . But , surely , none can think without horror on that man's condition , who has been more wicked in proportion as he had more means of excelling in ...
... eye , for defects and deviations which , in souls less enlightened , may be guiltless . But , surely , none can think without horror on that man's condition , who has been more wicked in proportion as he had more means of excelling in ...
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... eye , or any sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and command their stay , we can facilitate and promote their recurrence , we can either repress their intrusion , or ...
... eye , or any sound infused into the ear . But our ideas are more subjected to choice ; we can call them before us , and command their stay , we can facilitate and promote their recurrence , we can either repress their intrusion , or ...
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Seite 137 - 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.
Seite 146 - 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.
Seite 234 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Seite 442 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Seite 148 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Seite 119 - 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 drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Seite 61 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Seite 95 - 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.
Seite 441 - I sight, confused with shame, How could I once look up, or heave the head, Who, like a foolish pilot, have...