The Essays of Samuel JohnsonW. Scott, Limited, 1888 - 346 страници |
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... attention of all thoughtful men in the modest pages of the Rambler . On the 14th of March 1752 the last number was published ; it was written when the shadow of death was settling over Johnson's home in Gough Square , Fleet Street ...
... attention of all thoughtful men in the modest pages of the Rambler . On the 14th of March 1752 the last number was published ; it was written when the shadow of death was settling over Johnson's home in Gough Square , Fleet Street ...
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... attention , and hope , by observing his behaviour and success , to regulate their own practices , when they shall be engaged in the like part . For this reason , these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the ...
... attention , and hope , by observing his behaviour and success , to regulate their own practices , when they shall be engaged in the like part . For this reason , these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the ...
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... attention ought most to be employed as a diamond , though it cannot be made , may be polished by art , and placed in such a situation , as to display that lustre which before was buried among common stones . It is justly considered as ...
... attention ought most to be employed as a diamond , though it cannot be made , may be polished by art , and placed in such a situation , as to display that lustre which before was buried among common stones . It is justly considered as ...
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... attention to the con- sequences of this notion , that certain virtues have their correspondent faults , and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability . Thus men are observed by Swift to be " grateful in the ...
... attention to the con- sequences of this notion , that certain virtues have their correspondent faults , and therefore that to exhibit either apart is to deviate from probability . Thus men are observed by Swift to be " grateful in the ...
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... attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain , and is pleased with remembering that at least he made himself heard , that he had the power to interrupt those whom he could not confute , and suspend the decision which he ...
... attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain , and is pleased with remembering that at least he made himself heard , that he had the power to interrupt those whom he could not confute , and suspend the decision which he ...
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Страница xvi - 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.
Страница 309 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Страница 29 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Страница 79 - 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.
Страница 77 - LL 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.
Страница 192 - OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we ^ are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.
Страница 335 - TALES AND ESSAYS. EDITED, WITH INTROduction, by Ernest Rhys. 42 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited, with Preface, by Ernest Rhys. 43 POLITICAL ORATIONS, FROM WENTWORTH TO Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by William Clarke. 44 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY Oliver Wendell Holmes. 45 THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY OLIVER Wendell Holmes. 46 THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST- TABLE.
Страница 80 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Страница 5 - What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Страница 157 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.