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... morality . Death laid his hand on him in vain ; for though Johnson was gone the land became more and more Johnsonised . Great though his fame was in his life - time , it is greater still in his death . It is his singular fortune among ...
... morality . Death laid his hand on him in vain ; for though Johnson was gone the land became more and more Johnsonised . Great though his fame was in his life - time , it is greater still in his death . It is his singular fortune among ...
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Samuel Johnson. Philosopher , and Friend ' , ' ' the majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom , ' ' awful , melancholy , and venerables ' ; yet ' his throne of felicity is a tavern chair ' . ' He never acts up to a part . ' I never ...
Samuel Johnson. Philosopher , and Friend ' , ' ' the majestic teacher of moral and religious wisdom , ' ' awful , melancholy , and venerables ' ; yet ' his throne of felicity is a tavern chair ' . ' He never acts up to a part . ' I never ...
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... Life of Johnson , i . 67 . 5 Ib . iv . 238 . 3 Ib . i . 250 . 6 Ib . iii . 64. n . 2 . 4 Ib . iv . 88 . 7 Ib . iii . 183 . 8 Ib . iii . 69 . the ' the teachers of morality discourse like angels , but XX Introduction .
... Life of Johnson , i . 67 . 5 Ib . iv . 238 . 3 Ib . i . 250 . 6 Ib . iii . 64. n . 2 . 4 Ib . iv . 88 . 7 Ib . iii . 183 . 8 Ib . iii . 69 . the ' the teachers of morality discourse like angels , but XX Introduction .
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Samuel Johnson. ' the teachers of morality discourse like angels , but they live like men 1 . ' In all his greatness it is along the common ways of men that he moves . In every circle he is the first , yet the com- panions of his home ...
Samuel Johnson. ' the teachers of morality discourse like angels , but they live like men 1 . ' In all his greatness it is along the common ways of men that he moves . In every circle he is the first , yet the com- panions of his home ...
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Samuel Johnson. - ebbed and flowed . He would have pointed perhaps some sad moral , but in some way or other he would have maintained that every one had their shilling's worth of pleasure1 . The hopes that were commonly formed that by ...
Samuel Johnson. - ebbed and flowed . He would have pointed perhaps some sad moral , but in some way or other he would have maintained that every one had their shilling's worth of pleasure1 . The hopes that were commonly formed that by ...
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Page 43 - 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...
Page 42 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page 156 - His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void ; And sure the eternal Master found The single talent well employ'd.
Page 42 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship.
Page 288 - No, sir, there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 30 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful ; for not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself, to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use ; but...
Page 176 - DISORDERS of intellect, answered Imlac, happen much more often than superficial observers will easily believe. Perhaps, if we speak with rigorous exactness, no human mind is in its right state. There is no man whose imagination does not sometimes predominate over his reason, who can regulate his attention wholly by his will, and whose ideas will come and go at his command.
Page 155 - Condemn'd to Hope's delusive mine, As on we toil from day to day, By sudden blasts, or slow decline, Our social comforts drop away. Well tried through many a varying year, See Levett to the grave descend ; Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills Affection's eye, Obscurely wise and coarsely kind ; Nor...
Page 316 - When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided who, being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature and clear the world...
Page 119 - Imlac,) I will not undertake to maintain, against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...