The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker ... [and 9 others], 1820 |
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... honours when he is sure of not being rejected , he might commence author with better hopes , as his failings might escape contempt , though he shall never attain much regard . But since the world supposes every man that writes ...
... honours when he is sure of not being rejected , he might commence author with better hopes , as his failings might escape contempt , though he shall never attain much regard . But since the world supposes every man that writes ...
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... honours and rewards ? The ostentatious and haughty display of them . selves has been the usual refuge of diurnal writers , in vindication of whose practice it may be said that what it wants in prudence is supplied by sin- cerity , and ...
... honours and rewards ? The ostentatious and haughty display of them . selves has been the usual refuge of diurnal writers , in vindication of whose practice it may be said that what it wants in prudence is supplied by sin- cerity , and ...
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... honours and riches to scatter about him , and an island to bestow on his worthy squire , very few readers , amidst their mirth or pity , can . deny that they have admitted visions of the same kind ; though they have not , perhaps ...
... honours and riches to scatter about him , and an island to bestow on his worthy squire , very few readers , amidst their mirth or pity , can . deny that they have admitted visions of the same kind ; though they have not , perhaps ...
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... honours to be paid him , when envy is extinct , and faction forgotten , and those , whom partiality now suffers to obscure him , shall have given way to the triflers of as short duration as themselves . Those who have proceeded so far ...
... honours to be paid him , when envy is extinct , and faction forgotten , and those , whom partiality now suffers to obscure him , shall have given way to the triflers of as short duration as themselves . Those who have proceeded so far ...
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... honours Virtue shines ; Nor takes up pow'r , nor lays it down , As giddy rabbles smile or frown.ELPHINSTON . THE task of an author is , either to teach what is not known , or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them ...
... honours Virtue shines ; Nor takes up pow'r , nor lays it down , As giddy rabbles smile or frown.ELPHINSTON . THE task of an author is , either to teach what is not known , or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them ...
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419 ページ - 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.
51 ページ - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
404 ページ - Here the heart softens, and vigilance subsides; we are then willing to inquire whether another advance cannot be made, and whether we may not, at least, turn our eyes upon the gardens of pleasure; we approach them with scruple...
404 ページ - Obidah then related the occurrences of his journey, without any concealment or palliation. "Son," said the hermit, "let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour, and full of expectation ; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the direct road of piety towards the mansions of rest.
40 ページ - THE love of RETIREMENT has, in all ages, adhered closely to those minds, which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed every thing generally supposed to confer happiness, have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.
23 ページ - But when an adventurer is levelled with the rest of the world, and acts in such scenes of the universal drama, as may be the lot of any other man ; young spectators fix their eyes upon him with closer attention, and hope, by observing his behaviour and No. 4. THE RAMBLER. 23 success, to regulate their own practices, when they shall be engaged in the like part.
401 ページ - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers, which appeared to have the same direction with the main road, and was pleased that, by this happy experiment, he had found means to unite pleasure with business, and to gain the rewards of diligence without suffering its fatigues.
26 ページ - The Roman tyrant was content to be hated, if he was but feared; and there are thousands of the readers of romances willing to be thought wicked, if they may be allowed to be wits. It is therefore to be steadily inculcated, that virtue is the highest proof of understanding, and the only solid basis of greatness; and that vice is the natural consequence of narrow thoughts, that it begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy.
40 ページ - Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
403 ページ - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. "He advanced towards the light, and, finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he...