The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Band 2Alexander Chalmers 1812 |
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... approaches , and destroying themselves , not by the violence of a blow , which , when once given , can never be recalled , but by a slow poison , hourly repeated , and obstinately continued . This conduct is so absurd when it is ...
... approaches , and destroying themselves , not by the violence of a blow , which , when once given , can never be recalled , but by a slow poison , hourly repeated , and obstinately continued . This conduct is so absurd when it is ...
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... approaches to its object . But in the midst of his hopes , his projects , and his gayeties , he was seized by a lingering disease , which , from its first stage , he knew to be incurable . Here was an end of all his visions of greatness ...
... approaches to its object . But in the midst of his hopes , his projects , and his gayeties , he was seized by a lingering disease , which , from its first stage , he knew to be incurable . Here was an end of all his visions of greatness ...
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... approaches to them difficult and vexatious , and ima- gine that they aggrandize themselves by wasting the time of others in useless attendance , by mortifying them with slights , and teazing them with affronts . Men of this kind are ...
... approaches to them difficult and vexatious , and ima- gine that they aggrandize themselves by wasting the time of others in useless attendance , by mortifying them with slights , and teazing them with affronts . Men of this kind are ...
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... approach it . It is the business of moralists to detect the frauds of fortune , and to show that she imposes upon the careless eye , by a quick succession of shadows , which will shrink to nothing in the gripe ; that she disguises life ...
... approach it . It is the business of moralists to detect the frauds of fortune , and to show that she imposes upon the careless eye , by a quick succession of shadows , which will shrink to nothing in the gripe ; that she disguises life ...
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... approach what we resolve never to touch . We thus enter the bowers of ease , and repose in the shades of security . Here the heart softens , and vigi- lance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whe- ther another advance cannot be ...
... approach what we resolve never to touch . We thus enter the bowers of ease , and repose in the shades of security . Here the heart softens , and vigi- lance subsides ; we are then willing to inquire whe- ther another advance cannot be ...
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acquaintance amuse ance attention beauty Catiline censure common considered contempt critick curiosity danger daugh delight Demochares desire diligence domestick Dryden duty endeavour envy equally errour excellence expect eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear felicity flatter folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba gayety genius give gratifications happiness heart HESIOD hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined inquiry JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look ments Milton mind misery narchs nature necessary neglect ness never nity numbers observed once opinion ourselves Ovid pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts pride publick racter RAMBLER reason regard riches riety SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophism sound stancy suffer syllables tenderness thing thought thousand tion tivate TRUTH TUESDAY vanity verse virtue vowels wisdom wish writers
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Seite 244 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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.
Seite 229 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Seite 53 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Seite 56 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Seite 85 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called...
Seite 86 - He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought hither : I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Seite 172 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Seite 52 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes 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.
Seite 55 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot, in his account of Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion.
Seite 57 - ... 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 panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. 'Let me remember (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.