The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 41824 |
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acquaintance ambition amusements Anthea appearance beauty calamity censure Cleobulus common consider contempt conversation danger daugh delight desire discover easily ELPHINSTON eminent endeavour envy Epictetus equally errour evils expected eyes favour fear felicity folly force fortune frequently gain genius give happen happiness heart hinder honour hope hopes and fears hour human Ianthe imagination incited indulge inquiries irreversi Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind knowledge labour Lacedemon lady Learning less lest lives mankind marriage means Melanthia ment mind miscarriages misery moral nature neglect nerally ness never objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions pastoral perhaps Periander pleased pleasure Plutus portunity praise precepts Prudentius publick Rambler reason regard reproach reputation rest Satiety seldom sentiments sometimes soon sophism suffer tell thing thought tion told topicks vanity Virgil virtue wish write young
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Page 40 - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
Page 381 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate ; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Page 413 - ... only to make a few meanders, in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road. Having thus calmed his solicitude, he renewed his pace, though he suspected that he was not gaining ground.
Page 38 - ... its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated : we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.
Page 386 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Page 412 - He was fresh and vigorous with rest; he was animated with hope; he was incited by desire; he walked swiftly forward over the valleys, and saw the hills gradually rising before him. As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of Paradise, he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices ; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills ; and sometimes caught the gentle fragrance of...
Page 413 - Obidah paused for a time, and began to consider whether it were longer safe to forsake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence...
Page 308 - Health is indeed so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly ; and he that for a short gratification brings weakness and diseases upon himself, and for the pleasure of a few years passed in the tumults...
Page 413 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain tl»e rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues. He, therefore, still continued to walk for a time, without the least remission...
Page 415 - Obidah then related the occurrences of his journey, without any concealment or palliation. " Son," said the hermit, " let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of...