The Works of Samuel JohnsonElectric Umbrella Publishing, 1825 |
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ix. oldal
... danger of being dried up by the hot season ; but soon receiving an increase from the Gemma , the Keltu , the Bransa , and the other smaller rivers , it expands to such a breadth in the plains of Boad , which is not above three days ...
... danger of being dried up by the hot season ; but soon receiving an increase from the Gemma , the Keltu , the Bransa , and the other smaller rivers , it expands to such a breadth in the plains of Boad , which is not above three days ...
xxxvii. oldal
... danger : it was then that his spirits , not employed abroad , turned with in- ward hostility against himself . His reflections on his own life and conduct were always severe ; and , wishing to be immaculate , he destroyed his own peace ...
... danger : it was then that his spirits , not employed abroad , turned with in- ward hostility against himself . His reflections on his own life and conduct were always severe ; and , wishing to be immaculate , he destroyed his own peace ...
l. oldal
... danger from Scotland , it is probable , that his dislike of calvinism mingled , sometimes , with his reflections on the natives of that country . The association of ideas could not be easily broken ; but it is well known , that he loved ...
... danger from Scotland , it is probable , that his dislike of calvinism mingled , sometimes , with his reflections on the natives of that country . The association of ideas could not be easily broken ; but it is well known , that he loved ...
lxx. oldal
... danger , Mahomet , in a full assembly of the grandees , " catching with one hand , " as Knolles relates it , " the fair Greek by the hair of her head , and drawing his falchion with the other , he , at one blow , struck off her head ...
... danger , Mahomet , in a full assembly of the grandees , " catching with one hand , " as Knolles relates it , " the fair Greek by the hair of her head , and drawing his falchion with the other , he , at one blow , struck off her head ...
lxxvi. oldal
... dangerous prevalence of ima- gination , till , in time , some particular train of ideas fixes the attention , and the mind recurs constantly to the favourite con- ception , is carried on in a strain of acute observation ; but it leaves ...
... dangerous prevalence of ima- gination , till , in time , some particular train of ideas fixes the attention , and the mind recurs constantly to the favourite con- ception , is carried on in a strain of acute observation ; but it leaves ...
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16. oldal - Yet hope not life from grief or danger free, Nor think the doom of man revers'd for thee; Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise; There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.
xxxv. oldal - 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 favour.
20. oldal - New sorrow rises as the day returns, A sister sickens, or a daughter mourns. Now kindred Merit fills the sable bier, Now lacerated Friendship claims a tear.
17. oldal - 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...
226. oldal - They are surely happy," said the prince, "who have all these conveniences, of which I envy none so much as the facility with which separated friends interchange their thoughts." "The Europeans," answered Imlac, "are less unhappy than we, but they are not happy. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
221. oldal - Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.
199. oldal - The place which the wisdom or policy of antiquity had destined for the residence of the Abyssinian princes, was a spacious valley in the kingdom of Amhara, surrounded on every side by mountains, of which the summits overhang the middle part.
212. oldal - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good, if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls, nor mountains, nor seas, could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once •with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
267. oldal - 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...
241. oldal - He speaks, and attention watches his lips. He reasons, and conviction closes his periods. This man shall be my future guide : I will learn his doctrines, and imitate his life." " Be not too hasty," said Imlac, " to trust, or to admire, the teachers of morality : they discourse like angels, but they live like men.