The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... given up to the hiffes of the multitude , without friend and without apologift . It is the pe- culiar condition of falfehood , to be equally detefted by the good and bad : " The devils , " fays Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to ...
... given up to the hiffes of the multitude , without friend and without apologift . It is the pe- culiar condition of falfehood , to be equally detefted by the good and bad : " The devils , " fays Sir Thomas Brown , " do not tell lies to ...
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... given it a name , I fhall diftinguith as the lie of vanity . To vanity may jufly be imputed moft of the falfe- hoods , which every man perceives hourly playing upon his ear , and , perhaps , moft of thofe that are propagated with ...
... given it a name , I fhall diftinguith as the lie of vanity . To vanity may jufly be imputed moft of the falfe- hoods , which every man perceives hourly playing upon his ear , and , perhaps , moft of thofe that are propagated with ...
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... given to gold the force of thunder , and told of its power to ftorm cities and to conquer kings , would have concluded his account of its efficacy with its influence over naval command- ers , had he not alluded to fome fact then current ...
... given to gold the force of thunder , and told of its power to ftorm cities and to conquer kings , would have concluded his account of its efficacy with its influence over naval command- ers , had he not alluded to fome fact then current ...
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... given ? he takes advantage of the fecurity , neglects his affairs , omits his duty , fuffers timorous wicked- nefs to grow daring by degrees , permits appetite to call for new gratifications , and , perhaps , fecretly longs for the time ...
... given ? he takes advantage of the fecurity , neglects his affairs , omits his duty , fuffers timorous wicked- nefs to grow daring by degrees , permits appetite to call for new gratifications , and , perhaps , fecretly longs for the time ...
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... given to thofe , who venture to condemn that which they do not know ? If reafon has the power afcribed to it by its advo- cates , if fo much is to be difcovered by attention and meditation , it is hard to believe , that fo many millions ...
... given to thofe , who venture to condemn that which they do not know ? If reafon has the power afcribed to it by its advo- cates , if fo much is to be difcovered by attention and meditation , it is hard to believe , that fo many millions ...
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Сторінка 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Сторінка 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Сторінка 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Сторінка 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Сторінка 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Сторінка 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Сторінка 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Сторінка 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Сторінка 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Сторінка 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.