The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.H.C. Carey & I. Lea, 1825 - English literature |
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... universal patronage . There is no single character under which such numbers are comprised . Every man is , or hopes to be , an Idler . Even those who seem to differ most from us are hastening to increase our fra- ternity . As peace is ...
... universal patronage . There is no single character under which such numbers are comprised . Every man is , or hopes to be , an Idler . Even those who seem to differ most from us are hastening to increase our fra- ternity . As peace is ...
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... universal thirst and perpetual darkness are at a great distance . The ocean and the sun will last our time , and we may leave posterity to shift for themselves . But if the stores of nature are limited , much more narrow bounds must be ...
... universal thirst and perpetual darkness are at a great distance . The ocean and the sun will last our time , and we may leave posterity to shift for themselves . But if the stores of nature are limited , much more narrow bounds must be ...
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... universal diffusion of instruction is , perhaps , not wholly without its inconveniencies ; it certainly fills the na- tion with superficial disputants ; enables those to talk who were born to work ; and affords information sufficient to ...
... universal diffusion of instruction is , perhaps , not wholly without its inconveniencies ; it certainly fills the na- tion with superficial disputants ; enables those to talk who were born to work ; and affords information sufficient to ...
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... bitterness of un- welcome truth . Water is the universal vehicle by which are conveyed the particles necessary to sustenance and growth , by which thirst is quenched , and all the wants of life and No. 34 . 79 THE IDLER .
... bitterness of un- welcome truth . Water is the universal vehicle by which are conveyed the particles necessary to sustenance and growth , by which thirst is quenched , and all the wants of life and No. 34 . 79 THE IDLER .
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... universal infamy shall pursue the wretch whose wantonness of power , or revenge of disappointment , condemns another to torture and to ruin ; till he shall be hunted through the world as an enemy to man , and find in riches no shelter ...
... universal infamy shall pursue the wretch whose wantonness of power , or revenge of disappointment , condemns another to torture and to ruin ; till he shall be hunted through the world as an enemy to man , and find in riches no shelter ...
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Page 477 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground •which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Page 190 - 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...
Page 477 - ... dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins of lona ! We came too late to visit monuments : some care was necessary for ourselves.
Page 405 - There was perhaps never any change of national manners so quick, so great, and so general, as that which has operated in the Highlands, by the last conquest, and the subsequent laws. We came thither too late to see what we expected, a people of peculiar appearance, and a system of antiquated life.
Page 141 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : — When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Page 311 - It is wonderful with what coolness and indifference the greater part of mankind see war commenced. Those that hear of it at a distance or read of it in books, but have never presented its evils to their minds, consider it as little more than a splendid game, a proclamation, an army, a battle, and a triumph. Some indeed must perish in the most successful field, but they die upon the bed of honour, resign their lives amidst the joys of conquest, and filled with England's glory, smile in death.
Page 180 - Tis the divinity that stirs within us, Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter And intimates eternity to man.
Page 183 - Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot, " Dick Misty is a man of deep research, and forcible penetration.
Page 209 - Neither the judges of our laws, nor the representatives of our people,, would be much affected by laboured gesticulations, or believe any man the more because he rolled his eyes, or puffed his cheeks, or spread abroad his arms, or stamped the ground, or thumped his breast; or turned his eyes sometimes to the ceiling, and sometimes to the floor.
Page 274 - ... no mortal can tell why, or how. Thus, after having clambered, with great labour, from one step of argumentation to another, instead of rising into the light of knowledge, we are devolved back into dark ignorance ; and all our effort ends in belief, that for the evils of life there is some good reason, and in confession, that the reason cannot be found.