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Page vii
... nature , into vice or gross deformity . The lights and shades of the character should be given ; and if this be done with a strict regard to truth , a just estimate of Dr. Johnson will afford a lesson , perhaps , as valuable as the ...
... nature , into vice or gross deformity . The lights and shades of the character should be given ; and if this be done with a strict regard to truth , a just estimate of Dr. Johnson will afford a lesson , perhaps , as valuable as the ...
Page vii
... nature from the life ; and to have consulted his senses , not his imagination . He meets with no basilisks , that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey , with- out tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock ...
... nature from the life ; and to have consulted his senses , not his imagination . He meets with no basilisks , that destroy with their eyes ; his crocodiles devour their prey , with- out tears ; and his cataracts fall from the rock ...
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... nature for the different vocations to which each of them felt himself inclined . They acted from the impulse of young minds , even then meditating great things , and with cou- rage anticipating success . Their friend , Mr. Walmsley , by ...
... nature for the different vocations to which each of them felt himself inclined . They acted from the impulse of young minds , even then meditating great things , and with cou- rage anticipating success . Their friend , Mr. Walmsley , by ...
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... nature , or demolished other buildings to embellish his own . " These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface ; and are not these the motives of a critic and a scholar ? What reader of taste , what man of ...
... nature , or demolished other buildings to embellish his own . " These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface ; and are not these the motives of a critic and a scholar ? What reader of taste , what man of ...
Page xxxvii
... of reason ; who can wonder , that he was troubled with melancholy , and dejection of spirit ? An apprehension of the worst calamity that can befall human nature hung over him all the rest of his GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . xxxvii.
... of reason ; who can wonder , that he was troubled with melancholy , and dejection of spirit ? An apprehension of the worst calamity that can befall human nature hung over him all the rest of his GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . xxxvii.
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Page xxvi - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, My Lord, Your Lordship's most humble Most obedient servant, SAM. JOHNSON.
Page lxvii - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.
Page 5 - Speak thou, whose thoughts at humble peace repine, Shall Wolsey's wealth, with Wolsey's end, be thine? Or liv'st thou now, with safer pride content, The wisest justice on the banks of Trent? For, why did Wolsey, near the steeps of fate, On weak foundations raise th
Page 10 - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear.
Page xlvi - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 255 - This opinion, which perhaps, prevails, as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth : those that never heard of one another, would not have agreed in a tale which nothing but experience can make credible. That it is doubted by single cavillers, can very little weaken the general evidence; and some, who deny it with their tongues, confess it by their fears d.
Page 7 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page xviii - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 187 - The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part.
Page 8 - But did not chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.