The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 3Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810 |
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... human mind are always gradual , and arts are seldom invented but by imitation . The first idea contains the seed of the second ; this second , expanding itself , gives birth to a third ; and so on . Such is the progress of the mind of ...
... human mind are always gradual , and arts are seldom invented but by imitation . The first idea contains the seed of the second ; this second , expanding itself , gives birth to a third ; and so on . Such is the progress of the mind of ...
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... human life . Chacun peint avec art dans ce nouveau miroir S'y vit avec plaisir , ou crut ne s'y pas voir ! L'avare des premiers rit du tableau fidelle D'un avare souvent tracé sur son modelle ; Et mille fois un fat finement exprimé ...
... human life . Chacun peint avec art dans ce nouveau miroir S'y vit avec plaisir , ou crut ne s'y pas voir ! L'avare des premiers rit du tableau fidelle D'un avare souvent tracé sur son modelle ; Et mille fois un fat finement exprimé ...
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... age which followed it , for the same reason , that Horace is more delicate , and Lucilius more pointed . A dish of satire was always a delicious # 4 treat treat to human malignity ; but that dish was differ- 30 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
... age which followed it , for the same reason , that Horace is more delicate , and Lucilius more pointed . A dish of satire was always a delicious # 4 treat treat to human malignity ; but that dish was differ- 30 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
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... human malignity ; but that dish was differ- ently seasoned , as the manners were polished more or less . By polished manners I mean that good- breeding , that art of reserve and self - restraint , which is the consequence of dependence ...
... human malignity ; but that dish was differ- ently seasoned , as the manners were polished more or less . By polished manners I mean that good- breeding , that art of reserve and self - restraint , which is the consequence of dependence ...
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... the caprice of our taste , which would make our own manners the rule of human kind ; for . the passions of Grecian heroes are often dressed in ex- ternal ternal modes of appearance that disgust us , yet they 36 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
... the caprice of our taste , which would make our own manners the rule of human kind ; for . the passions of Grecian heroes are often dressed in ex- ternal ternal modes of appearance that disgust us , yet they 36 A DISSERTATION ON THE.
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Seite 366 - To live according to nature, is to act always with due regard to the fitness arising from the relations and qualities of causes and effects ; to concur with the great and unchangeable scheme of universal felicity ; to co-operate with the general disposition and tendency of the present system of things.
Seite 320 - is much to be desired; but I am afraid that no man will be able to breathe in these regions of speculation and tranquillity.
Seite 304 - ... frequented by every fowl whom nature has taught to dip the wing in water. This lake discharged its superfluities by a stream which entered a dark cleft of the mountain on the northern side, and fell with dreadful noise from precipice to precipice till it was heard no more.
Seite 128 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Seite 311 - The old man was surprised at this new species of affliction, and knew not what to reply, yet was unwilling to be silent. "Sir," said he, "if you had seen the miseries of the world, you would know how to value your present state." "Now," said the prince, "you have given me something to desire; I shall long to see the miseries of the world, since the sight of them is necessary to happiness.
Seite 385 - No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring : no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile.
Seite 436 - No disease of the imagination,' answered Imlac, 'is so difficult of cure as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt: fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other. If fancy presents images not moral or religious, the mind drives them away when they give it pain, but when...
Seite 331 - Being now resolved to be a poet, I saw every thing with a new purpose ; my sphere of attention was suddenly magnified : no kind of knowledge was to be overlooked. I ranged mountains and deserts for images and resemblances, and pictured upon my mind every tree of the forest and flower of the valley.
Seite 309 - With observations like these the prince amused himself as he returned, uttering them with a plaintive voice, yet with a look that discovered him to feel some complacence in his own perspicacity, and to receive some solace of the miseries of life, from consciousness of the delicacy with which he felt, and the eloquence with which he bewailed them.