The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... favours ; for admiration ceases with novelty , and interest gains its end and retires . A man whose great qualities want the ornament of superficial attractions , is like a naked mountain with mines of gold , which will be frequented ...
... favours ; for admiration ceases with novelty , and interest gains its end and retires . A man whose great qualities want the ornament of superficial attractions , is like a naked mountain with mines of gold , which will be frequented ...
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... favour against the time when I should be rich , to pay their court by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that she coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May hill ; or , at least , that ...
... favour against the time when I should be rich , to pay their court by informing me that my aunt began to droop , that she had lately a bad night , that she coughed feebly , and that she could never climb May hill ; or , at least , that ...
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... favours , may spare any attention to his behaviour , and that usefulness will always procure friends ; yet it has been found , that there is an art of granting requests , an art very difficult of attain- ment ; that officiousness and ...
... favours , may spare any attention to his behaviour , and that usefulness will always procure friends ; yet it has been found , that there is an art of granting requests , an art very difficult of attain- ment ; that officiousness and ...
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... favour of a peevish man , and exerting ourselves in the most diligent ci- vility , an unlucky syllable displeases , an unheeded cir- cumstance ruffles and exasperates ; and in the moment when we congratulate ourselves upon having gained ...
... favour of a peevish man , and exerting ourselves in the most diligent ci- vility , an unlucky syllable displeases , an unheeded cir- cumstance ruffles and exasperates ; and in the moment when we congratulate ourselves upon having gained ...
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... favour , and suffering none to ap proach them , but those who never speak but to ap- plaud , or move but to obey . He that gives himself up to his own fancy , and converses with none but such as he hires to lull him on the down of ...
... favour , and suffering none to ap proach them , but those who never speak but to ap- plaud , or move but to obey . He that gives himself up to his own fancy , and converses with none but such as he hires to lull him on the down of ...
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Seite 443 - 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 93 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Seite 119 - Reserv'd him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness, and lasting pain, Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes, That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once, as far as Angels...
Seite 439 - To live a life half dead, a living death, And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Seite 120 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Seite 104 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Seite 120 - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing ! The meaning, not the name, I call ; for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Seite 119 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Seite 118 - 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.