The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Том 61751 |
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affiftance againſt amuſements arife beauty becauſe Bufy cauſe celebrated cenfured confequences confidered converfation croud curiofity Dagon defign defire diſcharge diſcovered eafily eaſe eaſy endeavour enquiry equally eſcape eſtabliſhed fafely fame fatisfaction feems feen feldom felf fentiments fhall fhort fhould filence fince firft firſt folicit fome fomething fometimes foon ftate ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuperiority fupply fupport furely genius happineſs himſelf honeſt honour hope houſe imagination infolence inftruction infult intereft itſelf kindneſs knowledge labour ladies laft laſt learning leaſt lefs loft mankind ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary neceffity nefs never obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffions paſt perfuaded pleaſe pleaſure praiſe preſent purpoſes raiſe RAMBLER reaſon refolved reft Samfon ſcarcely ſcene ſcience ſhall ſhe ſome ſtate ſtrength ſtudy tenderneſs themſelves ther theſe thofe thoſe tion underſtanding uſe vifit virtue whofe whoſe wiſdom writer
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Страница 60 - With caufe this hope relieves thee^ and thefe words I as a prophecy receive; for God, Nothing more certain, will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. This part of the dialogue, as it might tend to animate or exafperate Samfon, cannot, I think, be cenfured as wholly fuperfluous : but the
Страница 95 - erat. I left no calling for this idle trade; No duty broke, no father difobey'd: While yet a child, ere yet a fool to fame, I lifp'd in numbers, for the numbers came. — This plain floor, Believe me, Reader, can fay
Страница 22 - of whatever he is defirous to perform. It is true, that no diligence can afcertain fuccefs; death may intercept the fwifteft career : but he who is cut off in the execution of an honeft undertaking, has at leaft the honour of falling in his rank, and has fought the battle, though he miffed the victory.
Страница 67 - complaint is therefore too elaborate to be natural. As in the land of darknefs, yet in light ; To live a life half dead, a living death, And bury'd : but O yet more miferable ! Myfelf my fepulchre, a moving grave ! Bury'd, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worft of other evils, pains and wrongs. All allufions to low and trivial
Страница 89 - expedient to be tried by which the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced; and the excellence which we cannot obfcure, may be fet at fuch a diftance, as not to overpower our fainter luftre. This accufation is dangerous; becaufe, even when it is falfe, it may be fometimes urged with probability.
Страница 199 - uneafy, than that in which the man is placed, who is watching an opportunity to fpeak, without courage to take it when it is offered, and who, though he refolves to give a fpecimen of his abilities, always finds fome reafon or other for delaying it to the next minute. I was
Страница 179 - than the negligence with which men overlook their own faults, however flagrant, and the eafinefs with which they pardon them, however frequently repeated. It feems generally believed, that as the eye cannot fee itfelf, the mind has no faculties by which it can contemplate its own ftate, and that therefore we have not
Страница 146 - fpeculation. That fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has furmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptations, can at beft be confidered but as gold not yet brought to the left, of which therefore the true value cannot be afligned. He that
Страница 69 - gift of God To a deceitful woman ? And the Chorus talks of adding fuel to flame in a report. He's gone ; and who knows how he may report Thy words, by adding fuel to the fame ? The
Страница 48 - the peculiarities of temper and opinion are gradually worn away by promifcuous converfe; as angular bodies and uneven furfaces lofe their points and afperities by frequent attrition againft one another, and approach by degrees to uniform rotundity. The prevalence of fafhion, the influence of example, the defire of applaufe, and the dread of cenfure,