The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... scarcely gain a friend or at- tract an imitator . Good - humour may be defined a habit of being pleased ; a constant and perennial softness of man- ner , easiness of approach , and suavity of disposition ; like that which every man ...
... scarcely gain a friend or at- tract an imitator . Good - humour may be defined a habit of being pleased ; a constant and perennial softness of man- ner , easiness of approach , and suavity of disposition ; like that which every man ...
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... any man may be convinced by putting on for an hour the armour of our ancestors ; for he will scarcely be- lieve that men would have had much inclination to marches and battles , encumbered and oppressed , as he 42 N ° 78 . THE RAMBLER .
... any man may be convinced by putting on for an hour the armour of our ancestors ; for he will scarcely be- lieve that men would have had much inclination to marches and battles , encumbered and oppressed , as he 42 N ° 78 . THE RAMBLER .
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... scarcely possible to pass an hour in honest conversation , without being able , when we rise from it , to please ourselves with having given or received some advantages ; but a man may shuffle cards , or rattle dice , from noon to ...
... scarcely possible to pass an hour in honest conversation , without being able , when we rise from it , to please ourselves with having given or received some advantages ; but a man may shuffle cards , or rattle dice , from noon to ...
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... scarcely suffer a man groaning under the pressure of distress , to judge rightly of the kindness of his friends , or think they have done enough till his deliverance is completed ; not therefore what we might wish , but what we could ...
... scarcely suffer a man groaning under the pressure of distress , to judge rightly of the kindness of his friends , or think they have done enough till his deliverance is completed ; not therefore what we might wish , but what we could ...
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... scarcely possible , to deliver the precepts of an art , without the terms by which the peculiar ideas of that art are expressed , and which had not been in- vented but because the language already in use was insufficient . If ...
... scarcely possible , to deliver the precepts of an art , without the terms by which the peculiar ideas of that art are expressed , and which had not been in- vented but because the language already in use was insufficient . If ...
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Page 79 - Here love his golden shafts employs, here lights His constant lamp, and waves his purple wings, Reigns here and revels...
Page 106 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar.
Page 83 - God made thee of choice his own, and of his own To serve him; thy reward was of his grace; Thy punishment then justly is at his will. Be...
Page 90 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn : here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 405 - Nor the other light of life continue long, But yield to double darkness nigh at hand : So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Page 120 - Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Page 46 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 80 - But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 375 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 83 - Modesty itself, if it is praised, will be envied ; and there are minds so impatient of inferiority, that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.