The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of Samuel JohnsonG. Dearborn, 1837 |
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Page vii
... heart ? With a mind naturally vigorous , and quick- ened by necessity , Johnson formed a multiplici- ty of projects ; but most of them proved abortive . A number of small tracts issued from his pen with wonderful rapidity ; such as ...
... heart ? With a mind naturally vigorous , and quick- ened by necessity , Johnson formed a multiplici- ty of projects ; but most of them proved abortive . A number of small tracts issued from his pen with wonderful rapidity ; such as ...
Page xxii
... heart , which means little more than the virtue of a horse or a dog . He should have known that kind af- fections are the essence of virtue : they are the will of God implanted in our nature , to aid and strengthen moral obligation ...
... heart , which means little more than the virtue of a horse or a dog . He should have known that kind af- fections are the essence of virtue : they are the will of God implanted in our nature , to aid and strengthen moral obligation ...
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... heart of the man , with all his inward consciousness . And yet neither in the open paths of life , nor in his secret recesses , has any one vice been disco- vered . We see him reviewing every year of his life , and severely censuring ...
... heart of the man , with all his inward consciousness . And yet neither in the open paths of life , nor in his secret recesses , has any one vice been disco- vered . We see him reviewing every year of his life , and severely censuring ...
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... heart , and revived the viper by too warm a fondness . Such , therefore , is the importance of keeping reason a constant guard over imagination , that we have otherwise no security for our own virtue , but may corrupt our hearts in the ...
... heart , and revived the viper by too warm a fondness . Such , therefore , is the importance of keeping reason a constant guard over imagination , that we have otherwise no security for our own virtue , but may corrupt our hearts in the ...
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... heart of the only ap- in time constitute a great part of the happiness prehension that sat heavy on it , I can please of the world ? Yet by some such fortuitous li - myself with the candour of Benevolus , who en- quefaction was mankind ...
... heart of the only ap- in time constitute a great part of the happiness prehension that sat heavy on it , I can please of the world ? Yet by some such fortuitous li - myself with the candour of Benevolus , who en- quefaction was mankind ...
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Page ix - 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 ? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Page ix - 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
Page 211 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Page 104 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way.
Page 97 - We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original.
Page 104 - 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 bramble?, the glimmer of a taper.
Page 83 - I was surprised, after the civilities of my first reception, to find, instead of the leisure and tranquillity, which a rural life always promises, and, if well conducted, might always afford, a confused wildness of care, and a tumultuous hurry of diligence, by which every face was clouded, and every motion agitated.
Page viii - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow.
Page vi - ... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his...
Page 213 - 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.