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... fear there is more difficulty in this affair than these good - natured gentlemen apprehend , especially as their election can- not be delayed longer than the 11th of next month . If you see this matter in the same 36 AN ESSAY ON THE ...
... fear there is more difficulty in this affair than these good - natured gentlemen apprehend , especially as their election can- not be delayed longer than the 11th of next month . If you see this matter in the same 36 AN ESSAY ON THE ...
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... fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and desolate the mind . What then remains ? Must I in slow decline To mute inglorious ease old age resign ? Or , bold Ambition kindling in my breast , Attempt some arduous task ? Or , were it ...
... fears with grief combin'd Waste all within , and desolate the mind . What then remains ? Must I in slow decline To mute inglorious ease old age resign ? Or , bold Ambition kindling in my breast , Attempt some arduous task ? Or , were it ...
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... fears of a crowd of inferior writers , " who , " he said , in the words of Roger Ascham , " lived , men knew not how , and died obscure , men marked not when . " He believed , that he could give a better history of Grub - street than ...
... fears of a crowd of inferior writers , " who , " he said , in the words of Roger Ascham , " lived , men knew not how , and died obscure , men marked not when . " He believed , that he could give a better history of Grub - street than ...
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... fear of pain , this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in a state of destitution , with nobody but Frank , his black servant , to sooth his anxi- ous moments . In November 1783 , he was swelled from head to ...
... fear of pain , this intellectual being ? By the death of Mrs. Williams he was left in a state of destitution , with nobody but Frank , his black servant , to sooth his anxi- ous moments . In November 1783 , he was swelled from head to ...
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... fear of the same dreadful visitation ; from one who says emphatically , " Of the uncertainties in our present state , the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason . " The inquiry into the cause of mad- ness ...
... fear of the same dreadful visitation ; from one who says emphatically , " Of the uncertainties in our present state , the most dreadful and alarming is the uncertain continuance of reason . " The inquiry into the cause of mad- ness ...
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Page 27 - Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resign'd; For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that panting for a happier seat, Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat...
Page 76 - Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre ; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending ; but I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it. When I had once addressed...
Page 21 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles decide. A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire...
Page 74 - 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 57 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 122 - 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...
Page 45 - To this discovery Dr. Francis made answer : 'Then, Sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes would be saying nothing.' The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson: one, in particular, praised his impartiality; observing that he dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. 'That is not quite true,' said Johnson: 'I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took, care that the WHIG DOGS should not have the...
Page 75 - 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. 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. " When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like...
Page 4 - There none are swept by sudden fate away, But all whom hunger spares with age decay: Here malice, rapine, accident, conspire, And now a rabble rages, now a fire; Their ambush here relentless ruffians lay, 15 And here the fell attorney prowls for prey; Here falling houses thunder on your head, And here a female atheist talks you dead.
Page 21 - O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain; No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field; Behold surrounding kings their pow'rs combine, And one capitulate, and one resign; Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; 'Think nothing gained', he cries, 'till nought remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, And all be mine beneath the polar sky.