The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3G. Cowie, 1825 |
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... given me , to have no regard in my choice to my own in- clinations , I could not forbear to discard some for vice , and some for rudeness . I was once loudly censured for refusing an old gentleman who offered an enormous join- ture ...
... given me , to have no regard in my choice to my own in- clinations , I could not forbear to discard some for vice , and some for rudeness . I was once loudly censured for refusing an old gentleman who offered an enormous join- ture ...
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... given to those who venture to condemn that which they do not know ? If reason has the power ascribed to it by its advocates , if so much is to be discovered by attention and meditation , it is hard to believe , that so many millions ...
... given to those who venture to condemn that which they do not know ? If reason has the power ascribed to it by its advocates , if so much is to be discovered by attention and meditation , it is hard to believe , that so many millions ...
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... given to the publick , I have remarked a spirit of candour and love of truth , equally remote from bigotry and captiousness : a just distribution of praise amongst the ancients and the moderns : a sober deference to reputation long ...
... given to the publick , I have remarked a spirit of candour and love of truth , equally remote from bigotry and captiousness : a just distribution of praise amongst the ancients and the moderns : a sober deference to reputation long ...
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... given , since no man can be happy by the prescription of another . Thus , what is said of children by Posidippus , " that they are occasions of fatigue , " and by Metrodorus , " that they are objects of affection , " is equally certain ...
... given , since no man can be happy by the prescription of another . Thus , what is said of children by Posidippus , " that they are occasions of fatigue , " and by Metrodorus , " that they are objects of affection , " is equally certain ...
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... given him , supply the ab- sence of more . Yet so far is almost every man from emulating the happiness of the gods , by any other means than grasping at their power , that it seems to be the N ° 119 . 111 THE ADVENTURER .
... given him , supply the ab- sence of more . Yet so far is almost every man from emulating the happiness of the gods , by any other means than grasping at their power , that it seems to be the N ° 119 . 111 THE ADVENTURER .
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Page 202 - Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault and hesitate dislike; Alike...
Page 173 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Page 217 - ... is the religious and moral knowledge of right and wrong ; the next is an acquaintance with the history of mankind, and with those examples which may be said to embody truth, and prove by events the reasonableness of opinions. Prudence and justice are virtues and excellences of all times and of all places ; we are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance.
Page 455 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.
Page 270 - The thoughts which are occasionally called forth in the progress, are such as could only be produced by an imagination in the highest degree fervid and active, to which materials were supplied by incessant study and unlimited curiosity. The heat of Milton's mind might be said to sublimate his learning, to throw off into his work the spirit of science, unmingled with its grosser parts.
Page 274 - The plan of Paradise Lost has this inconvenience, that it comprises neither human actions nor human manners. The man and woman who act and suffer, are in a state which no other man or woman can ever know.
Page 507 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early : he was one of the first £riends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. . He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was, a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Page 223 - ... there can be no religion. The remedy against these evils is to punish the authors; for it is yet allowed that every society may punish, though not prevent, the publication of opinions which that society shall think pernicious. But this punishment, though it may crush the author, promotes the book ; and it seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted because by our laws we can hang...
Page 635 - And shoot a chilness to my .trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
Page 203 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.