The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq, Volume 2F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... reflecting , that the author of a large treatise must proceed with anxiety , lest , before the completion of his work , the attention of the publick may have changed its object ; but that he who is confined to no single topick , may ...
... reflecting , that the author of a large treatise must proceed with anxiety , lest , before the completion of his work , the attention of the publick may have changed its object ; but that he who is confined to no single topick , may ...
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... reflections he may be preserved from too ardent wishes for seeming good , and from too much dejection in real evil . There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect , compared with which , reproach , hatred , and opposition ...
... reflections he may be preserved from too ardent wishes for seeming good , and from too much dejection in real evil . There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect , compared with which , reproach , hatred , and opposition ...
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... reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open without affording them pleasure or instruction , be- cause they never learned to read the characters . A French author has advanced this seeming pa- radox , that very few men ...
... reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open without affording them pleasure or instruction , be- cause they never learned to read the characters . A French author has advanced this seeming pa- radox , that very few men ...
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... reflections from the objects about him ; for it is to no purpose that he alters his position , if his attention continues fixed to the same point . The mind should be kept open to the access of every new idea , and so far disengaged ...
... reflections from the objects about him ; for it is to no purpose that he alters his position , if his attention continues fixed to the same point . The mind should be kept open to the access of every new idea , and so far disengaged ...
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... reflecting on those that suffer under the dreadful symptom of canine madness , termed by physicians the dread of ... reflections arose in my mind upon the re- membrance of a passage in Cowley's preface to his D poems , where , however ...
... reflecting on those that suffer under the dreadful symptom of canine madness , termed by physicians the dread of ... reflections arose in my mind upon the re- membrance of a passage in Cowley's preface to his D poems , where , however ...
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Page 405 - Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made ; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted ; that the wanderer may at length return after all his...
Page 7 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe...
Page 402 - In these amusements the hours passed away uncounted, his deviations had perplexed his memory, ami he knew not towards what point to travel. He stood pensive and confused, afraid to go forward lest he should go wrong, yet conscious that the time of loitering was now past. While he was thus tortured with uncertainty, the sky was overspread with clouds, the day vanished from before him, and a sudden tempest gathered round his head.
Page 8 - THE works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Page 371 - ... which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful. For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Page 12 - ... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue.
Page 403 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. "He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he...
Page 255 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 374 - There are indeed, some natural reasons why these narratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight, and why most accounts of particular persons are barren and useless. If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end.
Page 394 - WHEN Socrates was building himself a house at Athens, being asked by one that observed the littleness of the design, why a man so eminent would not have an abode more suitable to his dignity, he replied, that he should think himself sufficiently accommodated if he could see that narrow habitation filled with real friends.