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... fails to excite very keen resentment , an insolent assertion of superiority , and a triumph over less enlightened ... fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted . To avoid this dangerous imputation , scholars ...
... fails to excite very keen resentment , an insolent assertion of superiority , and a triumph over less enlightened ... fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted . To avoid this dangerous imputation , scholars ...
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... fail some- times by our weakness , but more frequently by our fault . We are sometimes bewildered by ignorance , and sometimes by prejudice , but we seldom deviate far from the right , but when we deliver ourselves up to the direction ...
... fail some- times by our weakness , but more frequently by our fault . We are sometimes bewildered by ignorance , and sometimes by prejudice , but we seldom deviate far from the right , but when we deliver ourselves up to the direction ...
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... failures , to which men of study are peculiarly exposed . Every condition has its disadvantages . The circle of knowledge is too wide for the most active and diligent intellect , and while science is pursued , other accomplishments are ...
... failures , to which men of study are peculiarly exposed . Every condition has its disadvantages . The circle of knowledge is too wide for the most active and diligent intellect , and while science is pursued , other accomplishments are ...
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... but with reverence , nor heard but with submission . It has been remarked that death , though often defied in the field , seldom fails to terrify when it approaches the bed of sickness in its natural horror ; THE RAMBLER . 75.
... but with reverence , nor heard but with submission . It has been remarked that death , though often defied in the field , seldom fails to terrify when it approaches the bed of sickness in its natural horror ; THE RAMBLER . 75.
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... fail of application . The mind of the reader is carried away from the contemplation of his own manners ; he finds in himself no likeness to the phantom before him ; and though he laughs or rages , is not reformed . The essays ...
... fail of application . The mind of the reader is carried away from the contemplation of his own manners ; he finds in himself no likeness to the phantom before him ; and though he laughs or rages , is not reformed . The essays ...
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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The Idler Samuel Johnson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1889 |
Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The Idler Samuel Johnson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1889 |
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amuse ardour attention Attic dialect Bodleian Library Boswell Boswell's Johnson calamities Catiline censure Chrysippus common consider contempt criticism danger David Fabricius delight desire dignity diligence discovered easily elegance endeavour enemies envy equally Essay Essay on Criticism evils excellence expect eyes fame fancy favour fear FEBRUARY 22 felicity folly fortune Garrick genius give gratify gulosity happiness heart honour hope Horace Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination inclination indulge John Le Clerc justly Juvenal kind knowledge labour learning live Lord Camden malignity mankind memory ment mind miscarriages misery nature ness never observed opinion pain passed passions perhaps pleasure poet Pope poverty praise present pride Prospero quæ Rambler reason received regard remember reputation resolution SATURDAY says seldom sentiments sometimes sorrow Statius suffer talk tell thing thought tion truth vanity virtue whoever William Gerard Hamilton wish write
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Sida 172 - An Ambassador is an honest man, sent to LIE ABROAD for the good of his country.
Sida 101 - 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, nor want nor cold his course delay!— Hide, blushing glory, hide Pultowa's day...
Sida 219 - No. 65., there is the following very extraordinary paragraph: " The authenticity of Clarendon's History, though printed with the sanction of one of the first universities of the world, had not an unexpected manuscript been happily discovered, would, with the help of factious credulity, have been brought into question, by the two lowest of all human beings, a scribbler for a party, and a commissioner of excise.
Sida 108 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Sida 174 - The sun grew low, and left the skies, Put down (some write) by ladies eyes ; The moon pull'd off her veil of light, That hides her face by day from sight, (Mysterious veil, of brightness made, That's both her lustre and her shade) And in the lanthorn of the night, With shining horns hung out her light : For darkness is the proper sphere Where all false glories use t
Sida 124 - O DEATH, how bitter is the remembrance of thee to a man that liveth at rest in his possessions, Unto the man that hath nothing to vex him, and that hath prosperity in all things: Yea, unto him that is yet able to receive meat!
Sida 54 - The utmost excellence at which humility can arrive, is a constant and determinate pursuit of virtue, without regard to present dangers or advantage ; a continual reference of every action to the divine will ; an habitual appeal to everlasting justice ; and an unvaried elevation of the intellectual eye to the reward which perseverance only can obtain.
Sida 86 - Enfin Malherbe vint, et, le premier en France, Fit sentir dans les vers une juste cadence. D'un mot mis en sa place enseigna le pouvoir. Et réduisit la muse aux règles du devoir.
Sida 206 - After all this, it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
Sida 83 - I have never been much a favourite of the publick, nor can boast that, in the progress of my undertaking, I have been animated by the rewards of the liberal, the caresses of the great, or the praises of the eminent. But I have no design to gratify pride by submission, or malice by lamentation; nor think it reasonable to complain of neglect from those whose regard I never solicited. If I have not been distinguished by the distributors of literary honours, I have seldom descended to the arts by which...