The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... reasons makes us differ from them . It often happens , that an author's reputation is endangered in fucceeding times , by that which raised the loudest applaufe among his cotemporaries : no- thing is read with greater pleasure than ...
... reasons makes us differ from them . It often happens , that an author's reputation is endangered in fucceeding times , by that which raised the loudest applaufe among his cotemporaries : no- thing is read with greater pleasure than ...
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... reason , is the failure alike of mean and elevated understand- ings ; but its foundation and its effects are totally different : the man of high courage and abilities great is apt to place too much confidence in himself , and to expect ...
... reason , is the failure alike of mean and elevated understand- ings ; but its foundation and its effects are totally different : the man of high courage and abilities great is apt to place too much confidence in himself , and to expect ...
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... reason under a chaos of indigested learning . Such is the talk of many who think themselves wife , and of fome who are thought wife by others ; of whom part probably believe their own tenets , and part may be justly fufpected of ...
... reason under a chaos of indigested learning . Such is the talk of many who think themselves wife , and of fome who are thought wife by others ; of whom part probably believe their own tenets , and part may be justly fufpected of ...
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... reason why one should on particular occafions , or to particular perfons , be preferable to another ; fome will be clear where others are obfcure , some will pleafe by their style and others by their me- thod , fome by their ...
... reason why one should on particular occafions , or to particular perfons , be preferable to another ; fome will be clear where others are obfcure , some will pleafe by their style and others by their me- thod , fome by their ...
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... reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wifh , did we not fee it in the poffeffion of others . For a mind difeafed with vain longings after un- attainable advantages , no medicine can be pre- fcribed , but an impartial enquiry into ...
... reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wifh , did we not fee it in the poffeffion of others . For a mind difeafed with vain longings after un- attainable advantages , no medicine can be pre- fcribed , but an impartial enquiry into ...
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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.