The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Luke Hansard, 1806 |
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Samuel Johnson. Page To Miss * ** " on her giving the Author a Gold and Silk Net - work Purse of her own weaving • • 131 To Miss ***** , on her playing upon the Harpsichord in a Room hung with Flow- er Pieces of her own painting Evening ...
Samuel Johnson. Page To Miss * ** " on her giving the Author a Gold and Silk Net - work Purse of her own weaving • • 131 To Miss ***** , on her playing upon the Harpsichord in a Room hung with Flow- er Pieces of her own painting Evening ...
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... gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown , Behold our fame , our wealth , our lives , your own . To such , the plunder of a land is giv'n , When public crimes inflame the wrath of Heav'n : 8 But what , my friend , what hope ...
... gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown , Behold our fame , our wealth , our lives , your own . To such , the plunder of a land is giv'n , When public crimes inflame the wrath of Heav'n : 8 But what , my friend , what hope ...
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... gold , what gold could never buy , The peaceful slumber , self - approving day , Unsullied fame , and conscience ever gay . 12 The cheated nation's happy fav'rites , see ! Mark whom the great caress , who frown on me ! LONDON ! the ...
... gold , what gold could never buy , The peaceful slumber , self - approving day , Unsullied fame , and conscience ever gay . 12 The cheated nation's happy fav'rites , see ! Mark whom the great caress , who frown on me ! LONDON ! the ...
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Samuel Johnson. But here more slow , where all are slaves to gold , Where looks are merchandise , and smiles are sold ; Where won by bribes , by flatteries , implor'd , The groom retails the favours of his lord . Buthark ! th ...
Samuel Johnson. But here more slow , where all are slaves to gold , Where looks are merchandise , and smiles are sold ; Where won by bribes , by flatteries , implor'd , The groom retails the favours of his lord . Buthark ! th ...
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... gold ; Wide wasting pest ! that rages unconfin'd , And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws , For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws ; Wealth heap'd on wealth , nor truth nor ...
... gold ; Wide wasting pest ! that rages unconfin'd , And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws , For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws ; Wealth heap'd on wealth , nor truth nor ...
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Seite xxxi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Seite xxxii - I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Seite 20 - Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge the gen'rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a...
Seite 15 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Seite xxxiv - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Seite 23 - ... prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r...
Seite lix - MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Seite 21 - 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...
Seite xlix - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room.
Seite 21 - The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For...