The works of Samuel Johnson, Band 5F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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amusement Arab attention Bassora battle of Dettingen beauty brothers were valiant Cairo censure CHAP commonly considered critick curiosity danger delight desire diligence discovered distress dread Drugget easily endeavour enemies enjoy equal evil expected expence eyes favour fear folly fortune friends genius happiness happy valley hear honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination Imlac innu inquiry kayah knowledge labour lady learned less live look lost Louisbourg mankind marriage ment mind misery morning nation nature Nekayah ness never night NUMB observed once opinion pain passed passions Pekuah perhaps pleased pleasure poet praise prince PRINCE OF ABISSINIA princess publick racter Rasselas reason resolved retired rich rience SATURDAY scrupulosity seldom shew sometimes soon suffer supposed sure talk tell thing Thomas Warton thought tion told truth virtue weary wife wisdom wish wonder writers
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Seite 310 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Seite 498 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.
Seite 329 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Seite 539 - The mind dances from scene to scene, unites all pleasures in all combinations, and riots in delights which nature and fortune, with all their bounty, cannot bestow.
Seite 447 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Seite 261 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Seite 418 - Johnson wrote it, that with the profits he might defray the expense of his mother's funeral, and pay some little debts which she had left. He told Sir Joshua Reynolds, that he composed it in the evenings of one week, sent it to the press in portions as it was written, and had never since read it over.
Seite 468 - The causes of good and evil, answered Inilac, " are so various and uncertain, so often entangled with each other, so diversified by various relations, and so much subject to accidents which cannot be foreseen, that he who would fix his condition upon incontestable reasons of preference, must live and die inquiring and deliberating.
Seite 482 - When I find young men so humble and so docile," said the philosopher, "I can deny them no information which my studies have enabled me to afford. To live according to nature is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects: to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Seite 309 - Use (he cried) those eyes So skilful, and those hands so taper; Do something exquisite and wise" — She bow'd, obey'd him, and cut paper. This vexing him who gave her birth, Thought by all Heaven a burning shame, What does she next, but bids on earth Her Burlington do just the same?