Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The IdlerJ.M. Dent, 1889 |
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... reputation was not gained by chance . He considers that what he shall say or do will never be forgotten ; that re- nown or infamy is suspended upon every syllable , and that nothing ought to fall from him which will not bear the test of ...
... reputation was not gained by chance . He considers that what he shall say or do will never be forgotten ; that re- nown or infamy is suspended upon every syllable , and that nothing ought to fall from him which will not bear the test of ...
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... reputation , think a closer attention unnecessary , but amidst all his pride and indigence , the two great hasteners of modern poems , employed twelve years upon the Thebaid , and thinks his claim to renown proportionate to his labour ...
... reputation , think a closer attention unnecessary , but amidst all his pride and indigence , the two great hasteners of modern poems , employed twelve years upon the Thebaid , and thinks his claim to renown proportionate to his labour ...
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... reputation . This it is that gives firmness and constancy , fidelity and disinterestedness , and it is this that kindles re- sentment for slight injuries , and dictates all the principles of sanguinary honour . But as time brings him ...
... reputation . This it is that gives firmness and constancy , fidelity and disinterestedness , and it is this that kindles re- sentment for slight injuries , and dictates all the principles of sanguinary honour . But as time brings him ...
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... reputation . Lest the fear of disgrace destroy activity . " Confidence in himself . Long tract of life before him .-- No thought of sickness . - Embarrassment of affairs . - Distrac- tion of family . Public calamities . - No sense of ...
... reputation . Lest the fear of disgrace destroy activity . " Confidence in himself . Long tract of life before him .-- No thought of sickness . - Embarrassment of affairs . - Distrac- tion of family . Public calamities . - No sense of ...
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... reputation was such that the voice of his country called him from his farm to take absolute command into his hand ; nor was Diogenes much mortified by his residence in a tub , where he was honoured with the visit of Alexander the Great ...
... reputation was such that the voice of his country called him from his farm to take absolute command into his hand ; nor was Diogenes much mortified by his residence in a tub , where he was honoured with the visit of Alexander the Great ...
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amuse ardour attention Attic dialect Bodleian Library Boswell Boswell's Johnson calamities Catiline censure Chrysippus common consider contempt criticism danger David Fabricius delight desire dignity diligence discovered easily elegance endeavour enemies envy equally Essay Essay on Criticism evils excellence expect eyes fame fancy favour fear FEBRUARY 22 felicity folly fortune Garrick genius give gratify gulosity happiness heart honour hope Horace Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination inclination indulge John Le Clerc justly Juvenal kind knowledge labour learning live Lord Camden malignity mankind memory ment mind miscarriages misery nature ness never observed opinion pain passed passions perhaps pleasure poet Pope poverty praise present pride Prospero quæ Rambler reason received regard remember reputation resolution SATURDAY says seldom sentiments sometimes sorrow Statius suffer talk tell thing thought tion truth vanity virtue whoever William Gerard Hamilton wish write
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Page 172 - An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to LIE ABROAD for the good of his country.
Page 101 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes, nor want nor cold his course delay!— Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Page 219 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Page 108 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 174 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
Page 124 - O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, Unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: Yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!
Page 54 - The utmost excellence at which humility can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain.
Page 86 - Enfin Malherbe vint, et, le premier en France, Fit sentir dans les vers une juste cadence. D'un mot mis en sa place enseigna le pouvoir. Et réduisit la muse aux règles du devoir.
Page 206 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Page 83 - I have never been much a favourite of the publick, nor can boast that, in the progress of my undertaking, I have been animated by the rewards of the liberal, the caresses of the great, or the praises of the eminent. But I have no design to gratify pride by submission, or malice by lamentation; nor think it reasonable to complain of neglect from those whose regard I never solicited. If I have not been distinguished by the distributors of literary honours, I have seldom descended to the arts by which...