The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...Harper & Brothers, 1840 |
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... sometimes say more than I mean , in jest , and people are apt to think me se- rious . " * The exercise of that privilege which is enjoyed by every man in society has not been al- lowed to him . His fame has given importance even to ...
... sometimes say more than I mean , in jest , and people are apt to think me se- rious . " * The exercise of that privilege which is enjoyed by every man in society has not been al- lowed to him . His fame has given importance even to ...
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... sometimes a general reverence paid to all that has the sanction of power , the countenance of greatness . How little this is the state of our country needs not be told . The edicts of an Eng- lish academy would probably be read by many ...
... sometimes a general reverence paid to all that has the sanction of power , the countenance of greatness . How little this is the state of our country needs not be told . The edicts of an Eng- lish academy would probably be read by many ...
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... sometimes , of his own accord , do things inconsistent with the established modes of behaviour . Sitting at table with the celebrated Mrs. Cholmondeley , who exerted herself to circulate the subscription for Shakspeare , he took hold of ...
... sometimes , of his own accord , do things inconsistent with the established modes of behaviour . Sitting at table with the celebrated Mrs. Cholmondeley , who exerted herself to circulate the subscription for Shakspeare , he took hold of ...
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Samuel Johnson William P. Page. sometimes violated . His morbid melancholy had an effect on his temper ; his passions were irritable ; and the pride of science , as well as of a fierce , in- dependent spirit , inflamed him on some ...
Samuel Johnson William P. Page. sometimes violated . His morbid melancholy had an effect on his temper ; his passions were irritable ; and the pride of science , as well as of a fierce , in- dependent spirit , inflamed him on some ...
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... sometimes seizes those minds which seem most exempted from it by variety of attain- ments , quickness of penetration , or severity of judg- ment ; and , indeed , the pride of wit and knowledge is often mortified by finding that they ...
... sometimes seizes those minds which seem most exempted from it by variety of attain- ments , quickness of penetration , or severity of judg- ment ; and , indeed , the pride of wit and knowledge is often mortified by finding that they ...
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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.