The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5Nichols and Son, 1816 - English literature |
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... expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . VOL . V. C Money has much less power than is ascribed to it No 73 . 17 . THE ...
... expected enjoyment , I deliver up myself to the tyranny of every desire which fancy suggests , and long for a thousand things which I am unable to procure . VOL . V. C Money has much less power than is ascribed to it No 73 . 17 . THE ...
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... expected to be better . He , by whose writings the heart is rectified , the appetites counteracted , and the passions repressed , may be considered as not unprofitable to the great republick of humanity , even though his behaviour ...
... expected to be better . He , by whose writings the heart is rectified , the appetites counteracted , and the passions repressed , may be considered as not unprofitable to the great republick of humanity , even though his behaviour ...
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... expected of all to be poets and philosophers ; it is necessary that the greater part of mankind should be employed in the minute business of common life ; minute , indeed , not if we consider its influence upon our happiness , but if we ...
... expected of all to be poets and philosophers ; it is necessary that the greater part of mankind should be employed in the minute business of common life ; minute , indeed , not if we consider its influence upon our happiness , but if we ...
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... return her insolence . I shall not proceed to extremities without your ad- vise , which is therefore impatiently expected by MYRTILLA , P. S. Remember I am past sixteen . NUMB . 85. TUESDAY , January 8 , 1751 . 6 2 N ° 84 . 83 THE RAMBLER .
... return her insolence . I shall not proceed to extremities without your ad- vise , which is therefore impatiently expected by MYRTILLA , P. S. Remember I am past sixteen . NUMB . 85. TUESDAY , January 8 , 1751 . 6 2 N ° 84 . 83 THE RAMBLER .
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... expected it , and heaped by PATRONAGE with the gifts of FORTUNE , but they were from that time chained to her footstool , and condemned to regulate their lives by her glances and her nods : they seemed proud of their manacles , and ...
... expected it , and heaped by PATRONAGE with the gifts of FORTUNE , but they were from that time chained to her footstool , and condemned to regulate their lives by her glances and her nods : they seemed proud of their manacles , and ...
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Ajax amusements Aristotle attention beauty cation celebrated censure charming company common considered contempt crimes critick curiosity danger delight Demochares desire dignity dili diligence discover domestick employed endeavoured envy equally excellence expected expence extempo eyes falsehood fancy favour fear February 16 felicity flattered folly fortune frequently genius gisms gratify happiness heart hexameter honour hope hour human idleness imagination inclination innu January 22 JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less libertine lives look mankind ment Milton mind miscarriages misery nature necessary neglected negligence ness never NUMB numbers observed once opinion OVID passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise pride prudence publick RAMBLER reason regard reproach ruentes SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments shew sometimes soon sophisms sound spect suffer surely syllables things thou thought tion truth TUESDAY turally vanity verse Virgil virtue writers
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Page 413 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 124 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : 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: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 133 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 411 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion...
Page 82 - 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 138 - 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 105 - Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity, and place, and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.
Page 107 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 48 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 82 - Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole : « Thou also mad'st the night, Maker Omnipotent! and thou the day...