The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].George Cowie, 1825 |
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... Labour necessary to excellence 295 170. The history of Misella debauched by her relation .. 299 - 171. Misella's description of the life of a prostitute 304 172. The effect of sudden riches upon the manners 309 173. Unreasonable fears ...
... Labour necessary to excellence 295 170. The history of Misella debauched by her relation .. 299 - 171. Misella's description of the life of a prostitute 304 172. The effect of sudden riches upon the manners 309 173. Unreasonable fears ...
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... labour or to art , but to the pre- judice of faction , the stratagem of intrigue , or the servility of adulation . Nothing is more common than to find men whose works are now totally neglected , mentioned with praises by their ...
... labour or to art , but to the pre- judice of faction , the stratagem of intrigue , or the servility of adulation . Nothing is more common than to find men whose works are now totally neglected , mentioned with praises by their ...
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... labour to recal the fire and impetuosity of youth ; in youth we must learn to expect , and in age to enjoy . The torment of expectation is , indeed , not easily to be borne at a time when every idea of gratification fires the blood ...
... labour to recal the fire and impetuosity of youth ; in youth we must learn to expect , and in age to enjoy . The torment of expectation is , indeed , not easily to be borne at a time when every idea of gratification fires the blood ...
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Samuel Johnson Francis Pearson Walesby. demanded , will be contented to spare the labour of un- necessary performances , and sit down to enjoy at ease his superfluities of honour . He whom success has made con- fident of his abilities ...
Samuel Johnson Francis Pearson Walesby. demanded , will be contented to spare the labour of un- necessary performances , and sit down to enjoy at ease his superfluities of honour . He whom success has made con- fident of his abilities ...
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... labour , and mingling hardships with indulgence . The body , long accustomed to stated quantities and uniform periods , is disordered by the smallest irregularity ; and since we cannot adjust every day by the balance or barometer , it ...
... labour , and mingling hardships with indulgence . The body , long accustomed to stated quantities and uniform periods , is disordered by the smallest irregularity ; and since we cannot adjust every day by the balance or barometer , it ...
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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...