The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... delight us long . We enjoy them a little , and then retire to easiness and good - humour , as the eye gazes awhile on eminences glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour ...
... delight us long . We enjoy them a little , and then retire to easiness and good - humour , as the eye gazes awhile on eminences glittering with the sun , but soon turns aching away to verdure and to flowers . Gaiety is to good - humour ...
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... delight him . Tetrica had a large fortune bequeathed to her by an aunt , which made her very early independent , and placed her in a state of superiority to all about her . Having no superfluity of understanding , she was soon ...
... delight him . Tetrica had a large fortune bequeathed to her by an aunt , which made her very early independent , and placed her in a state of superiority to all about her . Having no superfluity of understanding , she was soon ...
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... delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place , but the manner of his being ; an entrance into a state not simply which he knows not , but which perhaps he has not faculties to know ; an immediate and perceptible ...
... delighted or engaged him ; a change not only of the place , but the manner of his being ; an entrance into a state not simply which he knows not , but which perhaps he has not faculties to know ; an immediate and perceptible ...
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... last in the ground without the common honour of a stone ; because by those excellencies with which many were delighted , none had been obliged , and though they had many to celebrate , they had none 46 No 78 . THE RAMBLER .
... last in the ground without the common honour of a stone ; because by those excellencies with which many were delighted , none had been obliged , and though they had many to celebrate , they had none 46 No 78 . THE RAMBLER .
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... delight is in a great measure comparative , and arises at once from the sensations which we feel , and those which we remember . Thus ease after torment is pleasure for a time , and we are very agreeably re- created , when the body ...
... delight is in a great measure comparative , and arises at once from the sensations which we feel , and those which we remember . Thus ease after torment is pleasure for a time , and we are very agreeably re- created , when the body ...
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amusements ancient attention aunt beauty caprina celebrated censure common considered contempt critick curiosity danger death December 15 delight Demochares desire dili diligence discover domestick DRYDEN duty endeavoured envy equally expect expence FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear February 12 flattered folly fortune frequently gaiety genius give gratifications happiness harmony heart hexameter honour hope hopes and fears horse-flies hour human imagination inclined justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning less lives look mankind ment Milton mind misery nature necessary neglected neral ness never November 27 NUMB numbers observed once opinion OVID pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure poet praise precepts pride publick RAMBLER reason regard SATURDAY scarcely seldom shew silence produce sometimes soon sophism sound stancy Stridor suffer surely syllables thing thought thousand tion tivate Trajan's bridge TRUTH TUESDAY vanity vendat verse virtue writers
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Page 403 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 134 - 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...
Page 92 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. 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 143 - 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 401 - 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 373 - Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell.
Page 98 - 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.
Page 393 - But will arise, and his great name assert : Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive Such a discomfit, as shall quite despoil him Of all these boasted trophies won on me, And with confusion blank his worshippers.
Page 117 - 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 58 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.