The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... eyes from the duft before me . I lived in continual terror , frighted by every noise at the door , and terrified at the approach of every step quicker than common . I never retired to rest , with- out out feeling the juftnefs of the ...
... eyes from the duft before me . I lived in continual terror , frighted by every noise at the door , and terrified at the approach of every step quicker than common . I never retired to rest , with- out out feeling the juftnefs of the ...
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... eyes , I was pursued or infulted by vifionary bailiffs . When I reflected upon the meannefs of the shifts I had reduced myfelf to , I could not but curfe the folly and extravagance that had overwhelmed me in a fea of troubles , from ...
... eyes , I was pursued or infulted by vifionary bailiffs . When I reflected upon the meannefs of the shifts I had reduced myfelf to , I could not but curfe the folly and extravagance that had overwhelmed me in a fea of troubles , from ...
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... eye , only to fupply them with fubjects of conversa tion ! Others there are that amuse themselves with the diffemination of falfehood , at greater hazard of de- tection and difgrace ; men marked out by fome lucky planet for universal ...
... eye , only to fupply them with fubjects of conversa tion ! Others there are that amuse themselves with the diffemination of falfehood , at greater hazard of de- tection and difgrace ; men marked out by fome lucky planet for universal ...
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... eyes and ears , and to whom all perfons and affairs are thus intimately known ? This kind of falfehood is generally fuccefsful for a time , because it is practifed at first with timidity and caution : but the profperity of the liar is ...
... eyes and ears , and to whom all perfons and affairs are thus intimately known ? This kind of falfehood is generally fuccefsful for a time , because it is practifed at first with timidity and caution : but the profperity of the liar is ...
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... eyes , dear Cynthia , ftand , Held weakly by my fainting trembling hand . To thefe lines Ovid thus refers in his elegy on the death of Tibullus ; Cynthia decedens , felicius , inquit , amata Sum tibi ; vixifti dum tuus ignis eram , Cui ...
... eyes , dear Cynthia , ftand , Held weakly by my fainting trembling hand . To thefe lines Ovid thus refers in his elegy on the death of Tibullus ; Cynthia decedens , felicius , inquit , amata Sum tibi ; vixifti dum tuus ignis eram , Cui ...
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Страница 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Страница 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Страница 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Страница 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Страница 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Страница 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Страница 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Страница 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Страница 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Страница 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.