The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Luke Hansard, 1806 |
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... Souls or Christ Church library was " the largest , he answered , All Souls is the " largest we have , except the Bodleian . ' ' Ay , ' " said the King , that is the public library . ' His " Majesty inquired if he was then writing any ...
... Souls or Christ Church library was " the largest , he answered , All Souls is the " largest we have , except the Bodleian . ' ' Ay , ' " said the King , that is the public library . ' His " Majesty inquired if he was then writing any ...
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... souls restore ; And raise his treasures higher than before : Now bless'd with all the baubles of the great The polish'd marble and the shining plate , 30 Orgilio sees the golden pile aspire , And hopes from angry Heav'n another fire ...
... souls restore ; And raise his treasures higher than before : Now bless'd with all the baubles of the great The polish'd marble and the shining plate , 30 Orgilio sees the golden pile aspire , And hopes from angry Heav'n another fire ...
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... soul indulge the gen❜rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat ; Ver . 108-113 . Ver . 114-132 . There is a tradition , that the study of Friar Bacon , built on an arch over the bridge , will fall when a man greater shan ...
... soul indulge the gen❜rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat ; Ver . 108-113 . Ver . 114-132 . There is a tradition , that the study of Friar Bacon , built on an arch over the bridge , will fall when a man greater shan ...
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... soul of fire , No dangers fright him , and no labours tire ; O'er love , o'er fear , extends his wide domain , Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield , War sounds the trump , he rushes to the ...
... soul of fire , No dangers fright him , and no labours tire ; O'er love , o'er fear , extends his wide domain , Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield , War sounds the trump , he rushes to the ...
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... soul , and teach me how to lose thee . LEONTIUS . Enough of unavailing tears , Demetrius : I came obedient to thy friendly summons , And hop'd to share thy counsels , not thy sorrows : While thus we mourn the fortune of Aspasia , To ...
... soul , and teach me how to lose thee . LEONTIUS . Enough of unavailing tears , Demetrius : I came obedient to thy friendly summons , And hop'd to share thy counsels , not thy sorrows : While thus we mourn the fortune of Aspasia , To ...
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Página xxxi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página xxxii - I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Página 20 - Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge the gen'rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a...
Página 15 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Página xxxiv - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Página 23 - ... prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r...
Página lix - MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Página 21 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Página xlix - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room.
Página 21 - The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For...