The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys and Wheeler ; and W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his Mistress was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface ...
... honour . So wide was his province of intelligence , that , for several years , it filled all his days and two or three nights in the week . In the year 1647 , his Mistress was published ; for he imagined , as he declared in his preface ...
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Samuel Johnson. practice but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering bo- tany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a ...
Samuel Johnson. practice but his preparatory studies have contributed something to the honour of his country . Considering bo- tany as necessary to a physician , he retired into Kent to gather plants ; and as the predominance of a ...
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... up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man 24 COWLEY .
... up the whole again of every part . COWLEY . A coal - pit has not often found its poet ; but , that it may not want its due honour , Cleiveland has paralleled it with the sun : The moderate value of our guiltless ore Makes no man 24 COWLEY .
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... honour than a flaming mine ? These pregnant wombs of heat would fitter be , Than a few embers , for a deity . Had he our pits , the Persian would admire fire : No sun , but warm ' s devotion at our He'd leave the trotting whipster , and ...
... honour than a flaming mine ? These pregnant wombs of heat would fitter be , Than a few embers , for a deity . Had he our pits , the Persian would admire fire : No sun , but warm ' s devotion at our He'd leave the trotting whipster , and ...
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... honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand For days 52 COWLEY .
... honour or where conscience does not bind , No other law shall shackle me ; Slave to myself I ne'er will be ; Nor shall my future actions be confin'd By my own present mind . Who by resolves and vows engag'd does stand For days 52 COWLEY .
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18 ページ - To the following comparison of a man that travels and his wife that stays at home, with a pair of compasses, it may be doubted whether absurdity or ingenuity has better claim: Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness
107 ページ - add, of my own knowledge, that it was a book that Dr. Johnson frequently resorted to, as many others have done, for amusement after the fatigue of study. H.—Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Johnson said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to
18 ページ - far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home. Such wilt thou he to me, who must Like th' other foot obliquely run, , Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I
66 ページ - a speech of Mr. John Milton, for the liberty of unlicensed printing. The danger of such 'unbounded liberty, and the danger of bounding it, have produced a problem in the science of government, which human understanding seems, hitherto, unable to solve. If nothing may be published but
323 ページ - of a vigorous genius operating upon large materials. The power that predominated in his intellectual operations, was rather strong reason than quick sensibility. Upon all occasions that were presented, he studied rather than felt, and produced sentiments not such as nature enforces, but meditation supplies. With the simple and elemental passions, as
92 ページ - put an end to the secrecy of love, and Paradise Lost broke into open view with sufficient security of kind reception. Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecture with what temper Milton surveyed the silent progress of his work, and marked its reputation stealing its way in a kind of subterraneous current, through fear and silence.
421 ページ - thought herself entitled to treat with very little Ceremony the tutor of her son. Howe's ballad of the Despairing Shepherd, is said to have been written, either before or after marriage, upon this memorable pair; and it is certain that Addison has left behind him no encouragement for ambitious love.
457 ページ - shall transcribe from the correspondence of Swift and Pope. life, yet I find your name as a subscriber. He is too grave a poet for me; and I think among the mediocrists, in prose as \vell as verse." To this Pope returns: " To answer your question as to Mr. Hughes; what he wanted in genius, he
12 ページ - elegant or gross ; whether they compared the little to the great, or the great to the little. Physick and chirurgery for a lover: Gently, ah gently, madam, touch The wound, which you yourself have made; That pain must needs be very much, Which makes me of your hand afraid, Cordials of pity give me now., For J
68 ページ - a heavy crime, in the indecent language with which prosperity had emboldened the advocates for rebellion to insult all that is venerable or great: " Who would have imagined so little fear in him of the true all-seeing deity, as, immediately before his death, to pop into the hands of the grave bishop that attended him, as