The Works of Samuel Johnson, Band 5Nichols and Son, 1816 |
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... seldom despised but when they deserve contempt 78. The power of novelty . Mortality too familiar to raise apprehensions 79. A suspicious man justly suspected 36 42 48 80. Variety necessary to happiness . A winter scene 81. The great ...
... seldom despised but when they deserve contempt 78. The power of novelty . Mortality too familiar to raise apprehensions 79. A suspicious man justly suspected 36 42 48 80. Variety necessary to happiness . A winter scene 81. The great ...
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... seldom delight us long . We enjoy them a little , and then retire to ea- siness and good - humour , as the eye gazes awhile on eminences glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good ...
... seldom delight us long . We enjoy them a little , and then retire to ea- siness and good - humour , as the eye gazes awhile on eminences glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good ...
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... seldom fails to happen , that though at the entrance of some particular person every face brightens with glad- ness , and every hand is extended in salutation , yet if you pursue him beyond the first exchange of civilities , you will ...
... seldom fails to happen , that though at the entrance of some particular person every face brightens with glad- ness , and every hand is extended in salutation , yet if you pursue him beyond the first exchange of civilities , you will ...
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... seldom received with great ardour of kindness , I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the contagion of impatience , and produce anger rather than ten- derness . I write not merely to vent the swelling ...
... seldom received with great ardour of kindness , I hope to escape the mortification of finding that my lamentations spread the contagion of impatience , and produce anger rather than ten- derness . I write not merely to vent the swelling ...
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... seldom give pleasure , where they are not MEN pleased themselves ; it is necessary , there- fore , to cultivate an habitual alaority and cheer- fulness , that in whatever state we may be placed by Providence , whether we are appointed ...
... seldom give pleasure , where they are not MEN pleased themselves ; it is necessary , there- fore , to cultivate an habitual alaority and cheer- fulness , that in whatever state we may be placed by Providence , whether we are appointed ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty cation celebrated censure charming company common considered contempt crimes critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discover domestick employed endeavoured envy equally excellence expected expence extempo eyes falsehood fancy favour fear February 16 felicity flattered folly fortune frequently genius gisms gratify happiness heart hexameter honour hope hour human idleness imagination inclination innu January 22 JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind ment Milton mind miscarriages misery nature necessary neglected negligence ness never NUMB numbers observed once opinion OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise pride prudence publick RAMBLER reason regard reproach ruentes SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sometimes soon sophisms sound spect suffer surely syllables things thou thought tion truth TUESDAY turally vanity verse Virgil virtue writers
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Seite 413 - 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.
Seite 124 - 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 133 - 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 411 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Seite 82 - 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 138 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low? The...
Seite 105 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Seite 107 - 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 48 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Seite 82 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...