Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, Volumen 1W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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... less than either madness or despair . It is not to be conceived how any wise man alive , that had been such an implacable enemy to all singularities and mimic postures , and writ so learnedly con- cerning the use of the cane , could ...
... less than either madness or despair . It is not to be conceived how any wise man alive , that had been such an implacable enemy to all singularities and mimic postures , and writ so learnedly con- cerning the use of the cane , could ...
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... less than forty - four books . With the mediocrity and perseverance of our author , the world , however , soon grew satiated , and his heroes were scarcely ushered into life , before they began to exhibit symptoms of dissolution . Yet ...
... less than forty - four books . With the mediocrity and perseverance of our author , the world , however , soon grew satiated , and his heroes were scarcely ushered into life , before they began to exhibit symptoms of dissolution . Yet ...
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... less entertaining than any which had been established by the practice of the most celebrated antients . The form into which the best writer among the Romans generally chose to cast his thoughts , was that of dialogue , or of con ...
... less entertaining than any which had been established by the practice of the most celebrated antients . The form into which the best writer among the Romans generally chose to cast his thoughts , was that of dialogue , or of con ...
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... less effectual plan , would be , an injunction of the Legislature on every clergyman , and on every sponsor at the font , to take care , both as a religious and moral duty , that every infant be protected from danger by immediate ...
... less effectual plan , would be , an injunction of the Legislature on every clergyman , and on every sponsor at the font , to take care , both as a religious and moral duty , that every infant be protected from danger by immediate ...
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... less price than the stamp - duty had raised the half - sheet treatise to . The general way now of communicating our thoughts to the public , is , by distinct and uncon- nected letters to the author of this or that jour- nal . " The ...
... less price than the stamp - duty had raised the half - sheet treatise to . The general way now of communicating our thoughts to the public , is , by distinct and uncon- nected letters to the author of this or that jour- nal . " The ...
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Página 337 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation, my Lord, your Lordship's most humble, most obedient servant, "SAM JOHNSON.
Página 337 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 307 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Página 336 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página 404 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
Página 336 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 464 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
Página 254 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
Página 307 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Página 338 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.