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Page 26
... fear there is more difficulty in this affair " than these good - natured gentlemen apprehend , especially as their election cannot be delayed " longer than the 11th of next month . If you see this matter in the same light that it ...
... fear there is more difficulty in this affair " than these good - natured gentlemen apprehend , especially as their election cannot be delayed " longer than the 11th of next month . If you see this matter in the same light that it ...
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... fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and desolate the mind . What then remains ? Must I in slow decline To mute inglorious ease old age resign ? Or , bold Ambition kindling in my breast , Attempt some arduous task ? Or , were it ...
... fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and desolate the mind . What then remains ? Must I in slow decline To mute inglorious ease old age resign ? Or , bold Ambition kindling in my breast , Attempt some arduous task ? Or , were it ...
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... fears , of a crowd of inferior writers , " who , " he said , in the words of Roger Ascham , " lived , men knew not how , and " died obscure , men marked not when . " He be- lieved that he could give a better history of Grub - street ...
... fears , of a crowd of inferior writers , " who , " he said , in the words of Roger Ascham , " lived , men knew not how , and " died obscure , men marked not when . " He be- lieved that he could give a better history of Grub - street ...
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... motion to become A kneaded clod , and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods And from Milton , Who would lose , For fear of pain , this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in 86 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
... motion to become A kneaded clod , and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods And from Milton , Who would lose , For fear of pain , this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in 86 AN ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND.
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... fear of the same dreadful visitation ; from one who says emphatically , " Of the uncertainties in " our present state , the most dreadful and alarm- ing is the uncertain continuance of reason . " The enquiry into the cause of madness ...
... fear of the same dreadful visitation ; from one who says emphatically , " Of the uncertainties in " our present state , the most dreadful and alarm- ing is the uncertain continuance of reason . " The enquiry into the cause of madness ...
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Page 55 - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Page 54 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 54 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Page 156 - 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 55 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour.
Page 86 - 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 ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 157 - Think nothing gain'd," he cries, "till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.
Page 32 - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
Page 55 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page 50 - Why, Sir, it is a very harmless doctrine. They are of opinion that the generality of mankind are neither so obstinately wicked as to deserve everlasting punishment, nor so good as to merit being admitted into the society of blessed spirits; and therefore that God is graciously pleased to allow of a middle state, where they may be purified by certain degrees of suffering. You see, Sir, there is nothing unreasonable in this.