The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & Brothers, 1840 |
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... frequently written from very slender ma- terials , and often from none at all , the mere coinage of his own imagination . " He added , " that he never wrote any part of his works with equal velocity . Three columns of the magazine in an ...
... frequently written from very slender ma- terials , and often from none at all , the mere coinage of his own imagination . " He added , " that he never wrote any part of his works with equal velocity . Three columns of the magazine in an ...
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... frequent experiments and close attention . What is said by the chymists of their darling mercury , is perhaps true of every body through the whole crea- tion , that if a thousand lives should be spent upon it , all its properties would ...
... frequent experiments and close attention . What is said by the chymists of their darling mercury , is perhaps true of every body through the whole crea- tion , that if a thousand lives should be spent upon it , all its properties would ...
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... frequent respirations of intermediate solitude . To produce this disposition , nothing appears re- quisite but quick sensibility and active imagination ; for , though not devoted to virtue or science , the man whose faculties enable him ...
... frequent respirations of intermediate solitude . To produce this disposition , nothing appears re- quisite but quick sensibility and active imagination ; for , though not devoted to virtue or science , the man whose faculties enable him ...
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... frequently and more willingly revolved , gain a more forcible and permanent influence , till in time they become the ... frequent abstraction of ourselves into a state where this life , like the next , operates only upon the reason ...
... frequently and more willingly revolved , gain a more forcible and permanent influence , till in time they become the ... frequent abstraction of ourselves into a state where this life , like the next , operates only upon the reason ...
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... frequently condemned to inactivity , that as through all our time we are thinking , so for a great part of our time we can only think . Lest a power so restless should be either unprof- itably or hurtfully employed , and the ...
... frequently condemned to inactivity , that as through all our time we are thinking , so for a great part of our time we can only think . Lest a power so restless should be either unprof- itably or hurtfully employed , and the ...
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35 ページ - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
242 ページ - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
28 ページ - Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing, that he dealt out reason and eloquence, with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the best of it.
69 ページ - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
242 ページ - 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.
259 ページ - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
245 ページ - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
183 ページ - ... to our happiness. There is certainly no greater felicity, than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
272 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.
100 ページ - ... to obviate ; for such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labour and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other ; such are the changes that keep the mind in action ; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated ; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.