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... understand ; and they who have the power of assigning to others the task of life , are seldom honest or seldom happy in their 1 Juvenal , Satires , xv . 164 . nomination . Patrons are corrupted by avarice , cheated by THE RAMBLER . 13.
... understand ; and they who have the power of assigning to others the task of life , are seldom honest or seldom happy in their 1 Juvenal , Satires , xv . 164 . nomination . Patrons are corrupted by avarice , cheated by THE RAMBLER . 13.
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... understanding . It is not often difficult to find a suitable com- panion , if every man would be content with such as he is qualified to please . But if vanity tempts him to forsake his rank , and post himself among those with whom no ...
... understanding . It is not often difficult to find a suitable com- panion , if every man would be content with such as he is qualified to please . But if vanity tempts him to forsake his rank , and post himself among those with whom no ...
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... understand . That frolic which shakes one man with laughter , will convulse another with indignation ; the strain of ... understanding with unaccus- tomed ideas , will II C THE RAMBLER . 17.
... understand . That frolic which shakes one man with laughter , will convulse another with indignation ; the strain of ... understanding with unaccus- tomed ideas , will II C THE RAMBLER . 17.
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Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. never harasses the understanding with unaccus- tomed ideas , will be welcomed with ardour , and left with regret , unless he destroys those recom- mendations by faults with which peace and ...
Samuel Johnson George Birkbeck Norman Hill. never harasses the understanding with unaccus- tomed ideas , will be welcomed with ardour , and left with regret , unless he destroys those recom- mendations by faults with which peace and ...
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... understand- ing , and fancy that he is born to be illustrious with- out labour , than to omit the cares of husbandry and expect from his ground the blossoms of Arabia . The greatest part of those who congratulate themselves upon their ...
... understand- ing , and fancy that he is born to be illustrious with- out labour , than to omit the cares of husbandry and expect from his ground the blossoms of Arabia . The greatest part of those who congratulate themselves upon their ...
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Select Essays of Dr. Johnson: The Rambler (Continued). The Adventurer. The Idler Samuel Johnson Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1889 |
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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...