The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Volumen 4Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... turns over the reposi- tories of his memory , he finds his collection too small for a volume , he may yet have enough to furnish out an essay . He that would fear to lay out too much time upon an experiment of which he knows not the ...
... turns over the reposi- tories of his memory , he finds his collection too small for a volume , he may yet have enough to furnish out an essay . He that would fear to lay out too much time upon an experiment of which he knows not the ...
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... turn his eyes to that place which he strives to reach ; he that undergoes the fatigue of labour , must solace his ... turns up the ground but because he thinks of the harvest , that harvest which blights may intercept , which inunda ...
... turn his eyes to that place which he strives to reach ; he that undergoes the fatigue of labour , must solace his ... turns up the ground but because he thinks of the harvest , that harvest which blights may intercept , which inunda ...
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... turn the eye im- mediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself without discrimination . It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a cha- racter , that it is drawn as it appears ; for many charac ...
... turn the eye im- mediately upon mankind as upon a mirrour which shows all that presents itself without discrimination . It is therefore not a sufficient vindication of a cha- racter , that it is drawn as it appears ; for many charac ...
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... turns his hopes upon things wholly out of his own power ; since he forbears then to pre- cipitate his affairs , for the sake of the great event that is to complete his felicity , and waits for the blissful hour with less neglect of the ...
... turns his hopes upon things wholly out of his own power ; since he forbears then to pre- cipitate his affairs , for the sake of the great event that is to complete his felicity , and waits for the blissful hour with less neglect of the ...
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... turn our eyes , make us rejoice at the succeeding season , as well for what we have escaped as for what we may enjoy ; and every budding flower , which a warm situation brings early to our view , is con- sidered by us as a messenger to ...
... turn our eyes , make us rejoice at the succeeding season , as well for what we have escaped as for what we may enjoy ; and every budding flower , which a warm situation brings early to our view , is con- sidered by us as a messenger to ...
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Página 385 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Página 416 - We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch. We thus enter the bowers of ease, and repose in the shades of security.
Página 382 - ... no species of -writing seems more worthy of cultivation than biography, since none can be more delightful or more useful, none can more certainly enchain the heart by irresistible interest, or more widely diffuse instruction to every diversity of condition.
Página 415 - Thus, forlorn and distressed, he wandered . through the wild without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety or to destruction. At length, not fear but labour began to overcome him ; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled, and he was on the point of lying down, in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Página 24 - ... to teach the means of avoiding the snares which are laid by TREACHERY for INNOCENCE, without infusing any wish for that superiority...
Página 22 - They are the entertainment of minds unfurnished with ideas, and therefore easily susceptible of impressions; not fixed by principles, and therefore easily following the current of fancy; not informed by experience, and consequently open to every false suggestion and partial account.
Página 26 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Página 20 - E works of fiction, with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted, are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Página 22 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself; the virtues and crimes were equally beyond his sphere of activity; and he amused himself with heroes and with traitors, deliverers and persecutors, as with beings of another species, whose actions were regulated upon motives of their own, and who had neither faults nor excellences in common with himself.
Página 412 - As he passed along, his ears were delighted with the morning song of the bird of paradise; he was fanned by the last flutters of the sinking breeze, and sprinkled with dew by groves of spices; he sometimes contemplated the towering height of the oak, monarch of the hills; and sometimes caught...