The Essays of Samuel JohnsonW. Scott, Limited, 1888 - 346 страници |
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... discover sights of woe . " With these fragments of authority , the slaves of FLATTERY and MALEVOLENCE marched out , at the com- mand of their mistresses , to confer immortality , or condemn to oblivion . But this sceptre had now lost ...
... discover sights of woe . " With these fragments of authority , the slaves of FLATTERY and MALEVOLENCE marched out , at the com- mand of their mistresses , to confer immortality , or condemn to oblivion . But this sceptre had now lost ...
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... discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical , nor above probability , for what we cannot credit , we shall never imitate , but the highest and purest that humanity can reach ...
... discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical , nor above probability , for what we cannot credit , we shall never imitate , but the highest and purest that humanity can reach ...
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... discover to himself . He that finds his knowledge narrow , and his arguments weak , and by consequence his suffrage not much regarded , is sometimes in hope of gaining that attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain ...
... discover to himself . He that finds his knowledge narrow , and his arguments weak , and by consequence his suffrage not much regarded , is sometimes in hope of gaining that attention by his clamours which he cannot otherwise obtain ...
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... discover that the conduct of the advocates for virtue can little increase , or lessen , the obligations of their dictates ; argu- ment is to be invalidated only by argument , and is in itself of the same force , whether or not it ...
... discover that the conduct of the advocates for virtue can little increase , or lessen , the obligations of their dictates ; argu- ment is to be invalidated only by argument , and is in itself of the same force , whether or not it ...
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... discover the secret rancour of their hearts , and as envy is deservedly its own punishment , I frequently indulge myself in tormenting them with my presence . But though there may be some slight satisfaction received from the ...
... discover the secret rancour of their hearts , and as envy is deservedly its own punishment , I frequently indulge myself in tormenting them with my presence . But though there may be some slight satisfaction received from the ...
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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.