The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 2Cowie, 1825 |
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... soon shews us the tortuosities of imaginary rectitude , the complications of simplicity , and the asperities of smoothness . Sudden difficulties often start up from the ambushes of art , stop the career of ac- tivity , repress the ...
... soon shews us the tortuosities of imaginary rectitude , the complications of simplicity , and the asperities of smoothness . Sudden difficulties often start up from the ambushes of art , stop the career of ac- tivity , repress the ...
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... soon to repent the expence by which I had procured no advantage , and to suspect that a shining dress , like a weighty weapon , has no force in itself , but owes all its efficacy to him that wears it . Many were the mortifications and ...
... soon to repent the expence by which I had procured no advantage , and to suspect that a shining dress , like a weighty weapon , has no force in itself , but owes all its efficacy to him that wears it . Many were the mortifications and ...
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... soon discovered , that I was not destined to the glories of the chace . I was afraid of thorns in the thicket , and of dirt in the marsh ; I shivered on the brink of a river while the sportsmen crossed it , and trembled at the sight of ...
... soon discovered , that I was not destined to the glories of the chace . I was afraid of thorns in the thicket , and of dirt in the marsh ; I shivered on the brink of a river while the sportsmen crossed it , and trembled at the sight of ...
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... soon or late : Why should you vainly struggle with your fate ? Arim . I thank thee , Heav'n ! thou hast been wondrous kind ! Why am I thus to slavery design'd , And yet am cheated with a free - born mind ! - [ She frowns . Or make thy ...
... soon or late : Why should you vainly struggle with your fate ? Arim . I thank thee , Heav'n ! thou hast been wondrous kind ! Why am I thus to slavery design'd , And yet am cheated with a free - born mind ! - [ She frowns . Or make thy ...
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... soon as he finds himself about to do what he cannot persuade his reason to approve , are surely sufficient to awaken the most torpid risibility . There is scarce a tragedy of the last century which has not debased its most important ...
... soon as he finds himself about to do what he cannot persuade his reason to approve , are surely sufficient to awaken the most torpid risibility . There is scarce a tragedy of the last century which has not debased its most important ...
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Page 86 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Page 589 - Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning...
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Page 622 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
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Page 466 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Page 216 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 216 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?
Page 90 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid...