The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... never injured , like our illuftrious progenitors , the Mobocks , either life or limbs ; yet we have in the midst of Covent - Garden buried a taylor , who had been troublesome to fome of our fine gentlemen , beneath a heap of cabbage ...
... never injured , like our illuftrious progenitors , the Mobocks , either life or limbs ; yet we have in the midst of Covent - Garden buried a taylor , who had been troublesome to fome of our fine gentlemen , beneath a heap of cabbage ...
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... , frighted by every noise at the door , and terrified at the approach of every step quicker than common . I never retired to rest , with- out out feeling the juftnefs of the Spanish proverb , " N ° 41 . IT THE ADVENTURER .
... , frighted by every noise at the door , and terrified at the approach of every step quicker than common . I never retired to rest , with- out out feeling the juftnefs of the Spanish proverb , " N ° 41 . IT THE ADVENTURER .
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... never be reduced to practice ; and that of the numberlefs projects that have flattered mankind with theoretical fpecioufnefs , few have ferved any other purpofe than to fhew the ingenuity of their contrivers . A voyage to the moon ...
... never be reduced to practice ; and that of the numberlefs projects that have flattered mankind with theoretical fpecioufnefs , few have ferved any other purpofe than to fhew the ingenuity of their contrivers . A voyage to the moon ...
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... never be brought to difcern the end ; and of the feveral means by which it may be accomplished , the choice will be a perpetual fubject of debate , as every man is fwayed in his determination by his own knowledge or convenience . In a ...
... never be brought to difcern the end ; and of the feveral means by which it may be accomplished , the choice will be a perpetual fubject of debate , as every man is fwayed in his determination by his own knowledge or convenience . In a ...
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... never fail to diffolve their union : fuccefs and mifcarriage will be equally deftructive : after the conqueft of a province , they will quarrel in the divifion ; after the lofs of a battle , all will be en- deavouring to fecure ...
... never fail to diffolve their union : fuccefs and mifcarriage will be equally deftructive : after the conqueft of a province , they will quarrel in the divifion ; after the lofs of a battle , all will be en- deavouring to fecure ...
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Seite 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Seite 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Seite 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Seite 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Seite 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Seite 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Seite 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Seite 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Seite 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Seite 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.