The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 31822 |
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... discovered re- gions often display their skill in European learning . The god of love is mentioned in Tamerlane with all the familiarity of a Roman epigrammatist ; and a late writer has put Harvey's doctrine of the circula- tion of the ...
... discovered re- gions often display their skill in European learning . The god of love is mentioned in Tamerlane with all the familiarity of a Roman epigrammatist ; and a late writer has put Harvey's doctrine of the circula- tion of the ...
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... discovered in short quotations , be- cause they consist in the justness of diffuse reason- ings , or in the contexture and method of continued dialogues ; this play having none of those descrip- tions , similes , or splendid sentences ...
... discovered in short quotations , be- cause they consist in the justness of diffuse reason- ings , or in the contexture and method of continued dialogues ; this play having none of those descrip- tions , similes , or splendid sentences ...
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... discovered the town to be the proper element of youth and gaiety , and was quickly distinguished as a wit by the ladies , a species of beings only heard of at the university , whom I had no sooner the hap- piness of approaching than I ...
... discovered the town to be the proper element of youth and gaiety , and was quickly distinguished as a wit by the ladies , a species of beings only heard of at the university , whom I had no sooner the hap- piness of approaching than I ...
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... discovered prodigy . I was soon informed that the fine house and spacious gardens were haunted by squire Bluster , of whom it was very easy to learn the character , since nobody had re- gard for him sufficient to hinder them from ...
... discovered prodigy . I was soon informed that the fine house and spacious gardens were haunted by squire Bluster , of whom it was very easy to learn the character , since nobody had re- gard for him sufficient to hinder them from ...
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... discovery , thought it reasonable to alter the com- mon distribution of dignity , and ventured to con- demn mankind of universal ingratitude . For jus- tice exacts , that those by whom we are most bene- fited should be most honoured ...
... discovery , thought it reasonable to alter the com- mon distribution of dignity , and ventured to con- demn mankind of universal ingratitude . For jus- tice exacts , that those by whom we are most bene- fited should be most honoured ...
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Page 12 - 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 152 - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
Page 12 - Out, out, hyaena ! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee, To break all faith, all vows, deceive, betray, Then as repentant to submit...
Page 347 - I have at least endeavoured to deserve their kindness. 1 have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Page 225 - Envy is almost the only vice which is practicable at all times, and in every place ; the only passion which can never lie quiet for want of irritation : its effects therefore are every where discoverable, and its attempts always to be dreaded.
Page 10 - I not sung and proverbed for a fool In every street? Do they not say, How well Are come upon him his deserts?
Page 233 - Whoever considers the weakness both of himself and others, will not long want persuasives to forgiveness. We know not to what degree of malignity any injury is to be imputed ; or how much its guilt, if we were to inspect the mind of him that committed it, would be extenuated by mistake, precipitance, or negligence...
Page 111 - But the truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself.
Page 340 - ... yet the toil with which performance struggles after idea, is so irksome and disgusting, and so frequent is the necessity of resting below that perfection which we imagined within our reach, that seldom any man obtains more from his endeavours than a painful conviction of his defects, and a continual resuscitation of desires which he feels himself unable to gratify.
Page 96 - Probability requires that the time of action should approach somewhat nearly to that of exhibition, and those plays will always be thought most happily conducted which crowd the greatest variety into the least space. But since it will frequently happen that some delusion must be admitted, I know not where the limits of imagination can be fixed.