The Works of Samuel Johnson ...: The Adventurer and IdlerTalboys and Wheeler, 1825 |
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... common newspapers the medium of rational amusement ; and it maintained its ground in this cha- racter longer than any of the papers which have been brought forward by Colman and others on the same plan a . Dr. Johnson first inserted ...
... common newspapers the medium of rational amusement ; and it maintained its ground in this cha- racter longer than any of the papers which have been brought forward by Colman and others on the same plan a . Dr. Johnson first inserted ...
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... common ex- ploits of breaking windows and bruising the watch ; unless it be to tell you of the device of producing before the jus- tice broken lanterns , which have been paid for an hundred times ; or their appearances with patches on ...
... common ex- ploits of breaking windows and bruising the watch ; unless it be to tell you of the device of producing before the jus- tice broken lanterns , which have been paid for an hundred times ; or their appearances with patches on ...
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... common . I never retired to rest without feeling the justness of the Spanish proverb , " Let him who sleeps too much , borrow the pillow of a debtor : " my solicitude and vexation kept me long waking ; and when I had closed my eyes , I ...
... common . I never retired to rest without feeling the justness of the Spanish proverb , " Let him who sleeps too much , borrow the pillow of a debtor : " my solicitude and vexation kept me long waking ; and when I had closed my eyes , I ...
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... common distress ; and in the ar- dour of self - preservation fall unanimously upon an enemy , by whom they are all equally endangered . But if their first attack can be withstood , time will never fail to dis- solve their union ...
... common distress ; and in the ar- dour of self - preservation fall unanimously upon an enemy , by whom they are all equally endangered . But if their first attack can be withstood , time will never fail to dis- solve their union ...
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... Common danger unites by crushing other passions — but they return . Equality hinders compliance . Superiority produces insolence and envy . Too much regard in each to private interest ; -too little . " The mischiefs of private and ...
... Common danger unites by crushing other passions — but they return . Equality hinders compliance . Superiority produces insolence and envy . Too much regard in each to private interest ; -too little . " The mischiefs of private and ...
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admiration amusement appear Bassora beauty censure common commonly considered critick curiosity danger delight desire dili diligence discovered domestick easily easy elegance endeavour enjoy equally evil expected eyes favour felicity folly fortune friends genius give gout gratified hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler imagination inquire Joseph Warton kind knowledge labour lady Lapland learned less live look Louisbourg mankind Mantua marriage ment mind miscarriage misery morning nation nature ness never Newmarket night observed once opinion OVID Owen Feltham pain passed passions perhaps pleasing pleasure Posidippus praise present produce publick racter readers reason resolved rich rience SATURDAY scarcely seldom sentiments sleep Socrates sometimes suffered surely talk tell terrour Theocritus thing Thomas Warton thought Tibullus tion told truth ulmo virtue weary wish wonder write
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Page 378 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 391 - 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...
Page 108 - To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next, is to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.
Page 444 - thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent. The arts by which...
Page 97 - Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen, Count o'er thy days from anguish free, And know, whatever thou hast been, 'Tis something better not to be.
Page 385 - What I have had under consideration is the sublimest style, particularly that of Michael Angelo, the Homer of painting. Other kinds may admit of this naturalness, which of the lowest kind is the chief merit ; but in painting, as in poetry, the highest style has the least of common nature.
Page 374 - The remembrance of a few names of painters, with their general characters, with a few rules of the academy, which they may pick up among the painters, will go a great way towards making a very notable connoisseur. With a gentleman of this cast, I visited last week the Cartoons at Hampton-court; he was just returned from Italy, a connoisseur of course, and of course his mouth full of nothing but the grace of Raffaelle, the purity of Domenichino, the learning of Poussin, the air of Guido...
Page 238 - To write news in its perfection requires such a combination of qualities, that a man completely fitted for the task is not always to be found. In Sir Henry Wotton's jocular definition, "An ambassador is said to be a man of virtue sent abroad to tell lies for the advantage of his country ; a newswriter is a man without virtue, who writes lies at home for his own profit.
Page 373 - Critick still worse, who judges by narrow rules, and those too often false, and which though they should be true, and founded on nature, will lead him but a very little way towards the just estimation of the sublime beauties in works of Genius ; for whatever part of an art can be executed or criticised...
Page 356 - That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.