The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].Lude Hanford, 1825 |
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... of durable materials , or of art to dis- pose them , see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion , and those few that for a while attract the eye R. II . of mankind , are generally weak in the foundation ,
... of durable materials , or of art to dis- pose them , see their edifices perish as they are towering to completion , and those few that for a while attract the eye R. II . of mankind , are generally weak in the foundation ,
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Samuel Johnson Francis Pearson Walesby. of mankind , are generally weak in the foundation , and soon sink by the saps of time . No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes , than a publick library ; for who ...
Samuel Johnson Francis Pearson Walesby. of mankind , are generally weak in the foundation , and soon sink by the saps of time . No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes , than a publick library ; for who ...
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... mankind despair of understanding it , and grow weary of disturbance , content themselves with quiet ignorance , and refuse to be harassed with labours which they have no hopes of recompensing with knowledge . The authors of new ...
... mankind despair of understanding it , and grow weary of disturbance , content themselves with quiet ignorance , and refuse to be harassed with labours which they have no hopes of recompensing with knowledge . The authors of new ...
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... mankind despair of understanding it , and grow disturbance , content themselves with quiet igno refuse to be harassed with labours which the hopes of recompensing with knowledge . The authors of new discoveries may surely reckoned among ...
... mankind despair of understanding it , and grow disturbance , content themselves with quiet igno refuse to be harassed with labours which the hopes of recompensing with knowledge . The authors of new discoveries may surely reckoned among ...
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... mankind to favour another attempt , an ineffectual struggle for fame is often followed by perpetual obscurity . No. 112. SATURDAY , APRIL 13 , 1751 . OVID , Am . Lib.i. vii . 25 . In mea vesanas habui dispendia vires , Et valui panam ...
... mankind to favour another attempt , an ineffectual struggle for fame is often followed by perpetual obscurity . No. 112. SATURDAY , APRIL 13 , 1751 . OVID , Am . Lib.i. vii . 25 . In mea vesanas habui dispendia vires , Et valui panam ...
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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...