The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Količina 1A. V. Blake, 1846 |
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Stran xv
... nature hung over him all the rest of his life , like the sword of the tyrant suspended over his guest . In his sixtieth year he had a mind to write the history of his melan- choly ; but he desisted , not knowing , whether it would not ...
... nature hung over him all the rest of his life , like the sword of the tyrant suspended over his guest . In his sixtieth year he had a mind to write the history of his melan- choly ; but he desisted , not knowing , whether it would not ...
Stran xxviii
... nature ; " the ease with which this passage head of those who cultivated a clear and natural rises to unaffected grandeur , is the secret charm style . Dryden , Tillotson , and Sir William that captivates the reader . Johnson is always ...
... nature ; " the ease with which this passage head of those who cultivated a clear and natural rises to unaffected grandeur , is the secret charm style . Dryden , Tillotson , and Sir William that captivates the reader . Johnson is always ...
Stran xxx
... nature . As Sancho says in Don Quixote , they wanted better bread than is made with wheat . They took pains to be- wilder themselves , and were ingenious for no other purpose than to err . In Johnson's review of Cowley's works , false ...
... nature . As Sancho says in Don Quixote , they wanted better bread than is made with wheat . They took pains to be- wilder themselves , and were ingenious for no other purpose than to err . In Johnson's review of Cowley's works , false ...
Stran 11
... nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame , that are each of them attended with a different set of planets ; if we still ...
... nature and of art . He reaches the sublime without any apparent effort . When he tells us , " If we consider the fixed stars as so many oceans of flame , that are each of them attended with a different set of planets ; if we still ...
Stran 15
... nature , it must be confessed that this caution against keeping our view too intent upon remote advantages is not without its propriety or useful- ness , though it may have been recited with too much levity , or enforced with too little ...
... nature , it must be confessed that this caution against keeping our view too intent upon remote advantages is not without its propriety or useful- ness , though it may have been recited with too much levity , or enforced with too little ...
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Stran xv - is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Stran xv - Seven years, my lord, have now passed since 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.
Stran 215 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself ; My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest.
Stran xxiii - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Stran iv - He appears by bis modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination; he meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rock without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
Stran 103 - ... more knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants, than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.
Stran 110 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper.
Stran xv - Is not a Patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help...
Stran 110 - In a short time we remit our fervour, and endeavour to find some mitigation of our duty, and some more easy means of obtaining the same end. We then relax our vigour, and resolve no longer to be terrified with crimes at a distance, but rely upon our own constancy, and venture to approach what we resolve never to touch.
Stran 78 - 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.