Select Essays of Dr. Johnson, Том 1J.M. Dent, 1889 - 4 страници |
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... The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy 59. An Account of Suspirius , the Human Screech- Owl 60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography 103 852 28 38 46 52 68 74 81 89 96 No. 68. Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home.
... The Desire of Wealth Moderated by Philosophy 59. An Account of Suspirius , the Human Screech- Owl 60. The Dignity and Usefulness of Biography 103 852 28 38 46 52 68 74 81 89 96 No. 68. Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home.
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... human mind , the desire of good , and the fear of evil . For who can wonder that , allured on one side , and frightened on the other , some should endeavour to gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do ...
... human mind , the desire of good , and the fear of evil . For who can wonder that , allured on one side , and frightened on the other , some should endeavour to gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do ...
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... human state , to rouse mortals from their dream , and inform them of the silent celerity of time , that we may believe authors willing rather to transmit than examine so advantageous a principle , and more inclined to pursue a track so ...
... human state , to rouse mortals from their dream , and inform them of the silent celerity of time , that we may believe authors willing rather to transmit than examine so advantageous a principle , and more inclined to pursue a track so ...
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... human being ; but that as every part of life of which we are conscious was at some point of time a period yet to come in which felicity was expected , there was some happiness produced by hope . " - Boswell's Johnson , ii . 350.— Cf ...
... human being ; but that as every part of life of which we are conscious was at some point of time a period yet to come in which felicity was expected , there was some happiness produced by hope . " - Boswell's Johnson , ii . 350.— Cf ...
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... human species requires more to be cautioned against this anticipation of happiness , than those that aspire to the name of authors . A man of lively fancy no sooner finds a hint moving in his mind , than he makes momen- taneous ...
... human species requires more to be cautioned against this anticipation of happiness , than those that aspire to the name of authors . A man of lively fancy no sooner finds a hint moving in his mind , than he makes momen- taneous ...
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Страница 112 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Страница 175 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
Страница 169 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Страница 103 - All 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 185 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Страница 181 - The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank verse, said an ingenious critic, seems to be verse only to the eye.
Страница 159 - ... make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disjoined by an easy separation. It was a principle among the ancients, that acute diseases are from heaven, and chronical from ourselves; the dart of death indeed falls from heaven, but we poison it by our own misconduct; to die Is the fate of man, but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
Страница 113 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
Страница 169 - The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole. Thou also madest the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
Страница 109 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.