The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols, 1816 |
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... produce no single acts of heroism , nor astonish us by great events , yet are every moment exerting their influ- ence upon us , and make the draught of life sweet or bitter by imperceptible instillations . They operate unseen and ...
... produce no single acts of heroism , nor astonish us by great events , yet are every moment exerting their influ- ence upon us , and make the draught of life sweet or bitter by imperceptible instillations . They operate unseen and ...
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... produce anger rather than ten- derness . I write not merely to vent the swelling of my heart , but to enquire by what means I may re- cover my tranquillity ; and shall endeavour at bre- vity in my narrative , having long known that com ...
... produce anger rather than ten- derness . I write not merely to vent the swelling of my heart , but to enquire by what means I may re- cover my tranquillity ; and shall endeavour at bre- vity in my narrative , having long known that com ...
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... produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of uneasiness , as keeps the soul perpetually on the watch , such a restless and incessant solicitude , as no care or tenderness can appease , and can only be pacified by the ...
... produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of uneasiness , as keeps the soul perpetually on the watch , such a restless and incessant solicitude , as no care or tenderness can appease , and can only be pacified by the ...
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... produce claims to kinder treatment , but provoked the calamities which they suffered , and seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men , celebrated for theoretick wisdom , live with conformity to their precepts ...
... produce claims to kinder treatment , but provoked the calamities which they suffered , and seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men , celebrated for theoretick wisdom , live with conformity to their precepts ...
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... produced immediately upon the mind ; nothing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that which at ...
... produced immediately upon the mind ; nothing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that which at ...
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Page 137 - 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.
Page 146 - 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.
Page 234 - Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise: He who defers this work from day to day, Does on a river's bank expecting stay Till the whole stream which stopp'd him should be gone, Which runs, and, as it runs, for ever will run on.
Page 442 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Page 148 - Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus.
Page 119 - 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.
Page 61 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 95 - 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.
Page 441 - I sight, confused with shame, How could I once look up, or heave the head, Who, like a foolish pilot, have...