The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 3F. C. and J. Rivington, 1823 |
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... produce no single acts of heroism , nor astonish us by great events , yet are every moment exerting their influence upon us , and make the draught of life sweet or bitter by imperceptible in- stillations . They operate unseen and ...
... produce no single acts of heroism , nor astonish us by great events , yet are every moment exerting their influence upon us , and make the draught of life sweet or bitter by imperceptible in- stillations . They operate unseen and ...
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... produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of uneasiness , as keeps the soul perpetually on the watch , such a restless and incessant solicitude , as no care or tenderness can appease , and can only be pacified by the ...
... produces such an alarming apprehension of the least increase of uneasiness , as keeps the soul perpetually on the watch , such a restless and incessant solicitude , as no care or tenderness can appease , and can only be pacified by the ...
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... produce claims to kinder treatment , but provoked the calamities which they suffered , and seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men , celebrated for theoretick wisdom , live with conformity to their precepts ...
... produce claims to kinder treatment , but provoked the calamities which they suffered , and seldom wanted friends , but when they wanted virtue . That few men , celebrated for theoretick wisdom , live with conformity to their precepts ...
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... produced immediately upon the mind ; no- thing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that which ...
... produced immediately upon the mind ; no- thing can strongly strike or affect us , but what is rare or sudden . The most important events , when they become familiar , are no longer considered with wonder or solicitude , and that which ...
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... produce composure of mind , and concentration of ideas ; and the privation of external pleasure naturally causes an effort to find entertainment within . This is the time in which those whom literature enables to find amusements for ...
... produce composure of mind , and concentration of ideas ; and the privation of external pleasure naturally causes an effort to find entertainment within . This is the time in which those whom literature enables to find amusements for ...
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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.