The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].George Cowie, 1825 |
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... appearance of childish diffidence . I was celebrated round the country for the petulance of my re- marks , and the quickness of my replies ; and many a scho- lar , five years older than myself , have I dashed into con- fusion by the ...
... appearance of childish diffidence . I was celebrated round the country for the petulance of my re- marks , and the quickness of my replies ; and many a scho- lar , five years older than myself , have I dashed into con- fusion by the ...
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... appearance , and influenced often rather by example than precept , we are obliged to refute a false charge , lest we should countenance the crime which we have never committed . To turn away from an accusa- tion with supercilious ...
... appearance , and influenced often rather by example than precept , we are obliged to refute a false charge , lest we should countenance the crime which we have never committed . To turn away from an accusa- tion with supercilious ...
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... appearance of intimacy from the hour that my inclination changed , but to preserve her whom I was leaving from the shock of ab- ruptness , or the ignominy of contempt ; that I always en- deavoured to give the ladies an opportunity of ...
... appearance of intimacy from the hour that my inclination changed , but to preserve her whom I was leaving from the shock of ab- ruptness , or the ignominy of contempt ; that I always en- deavoured to give the ladies an opportunity of ...
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... appearances to devote myself irrevocably at the first interview , yet I could not suppress some rap- tures of admiration , and flutters of desire . I was easily persuaded to make nearer approaches ; but soon discover- ed , that an union ...
... appearances to devote myself irrevocably at the first interview , yet I could not suppress some rap- tures of admiration , and flutters of desire . I was easily persuaded to make nearer approaches ; but soon discover- ed , that an union ...
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... appearance empty , have teemed with notions upon rising ground , as the flaccid sides of a football would have swelled out into stiffness and extension . For this reason I never think myself qualified to judge decisively of any man's ...
... appearance empty , have teemed with notions upon rising ground , as the flaccid sides of a football would have swelled out into stiffness and extension . For this reason I never think myself qualified to judge decisively of any man's ...
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Страница 154 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Страница 279 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Страница 156 - The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined?
Страница 155 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Страница 21 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judged us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd and humiliation meek?
Страница 228 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius merely by the event.
Страница 150 - He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains, counsellors...
Страница 154 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Страница 148 - But will arise and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall e're long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted Trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his Worshippers.
Страница 279 - ... we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife ; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror...