The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The RamblerJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... honours when he is sure of not being rejected, he might commence author with better hopes, as his sailings might escape contempt, though he shall never attain much regard. But since the world suppofes every man that writes, ambitious of ...
... honours when he is sure of not being rejected, he might commence author with better hopes, as his sailings might escape contempt, though he shall never attain much regard. But since the world suppofes every man that writes, ambitious of ...
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. deserts, and a publick challenge of honours and rewards. The ostentatious and haughty display of themselves has been the usual resuge of diurnal writers, in vindication of whofe practice it may be faid, that ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. deserts, and a publick challenge of honours and rewards. The ostentatious and haughty display of themselves has been the usual resuge of diurnal writers, in vindication of whofe practice it may be faid, that ...
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... honours and riches to scatter about him, and an island to bestow on his worthy squire, very sew readers, amidst their mirth or pity, can deny that they have admitted visions of the same kind ; though they have not, perhaps, expected ...
... honours and riches to scatter about him, and an island to bestow on his worthy squire, very sew readers, amidst their mirth or pity, can deny that they have admitted visions of the same kind ; though they have not, perhaps, expected ...
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... honours to be paid him, when envy is extinct, and saction forgotten, and thofe, whom partiality now sufsers to obscure him, shall have given way to the tri- flers of as short duration as themselves. Thofe, who have proceeded so sar as ...
... honours to be paid him, when envy is extinct, and saction forgotten, and thofe, whom partiality now sufsers to obscure him, shall have given way to the tri- flers of as short duration as themselves. Thofe, who have proceeded so sar as ...
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... honours virtue (Lines ; Nor takes up pow'r, nor lays it down, As giddy rabbles smile or frown. Elphinstoh. THE task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them ; either ...
... honours virtue (Lines ; Nor takes up pow'r, nor lays it down, As giddy rabbles smile or frown. Elphinstoh. THE task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them ; either ...
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Page 388 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Page 416 - ... is consulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him to seek shelter in the grove, and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle.
Page 30 - Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Page 271 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 283 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 384 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Page 25 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Page 386 - ... the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Page 287 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the -portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched; this is the condition of all below the stars, and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Page 383 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.