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ix. oldal
... labour . This spring , or rather these two springs , are two holes , each about two feet diameter , a stone's cast distant from each other . One of them is about five feet and a half in depth . Lobo was not able to sink his plummet ...
... labour . This spring , or rather these two springs , are two holes , each about two feet diameter , a stone's cast distant from each other . One of them is about five feet and a half in depth . Lobo was not able to sink his plummet ...
xxvii. oldal
... labour on a barren topick , till it is too late to change it ; or , in the ardour of invention , diffuse his thoughts into wild exu- berance , which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce . " Of ...
... labour on a barren topick , till it is too late to change it ; or , in the ardour of invention , diffuse his thoughts into wild exu- berance , which the pressing hour of publication cannot suffer judgment to examine or reduce . " Of ...
xxxiii. oldal
... labour and expense , died in a short time after , a melancholy instance of unrewarded merit . His daughter possessed uncommon talents , and , though blind , had an alacrity of mind that made her conversation agreeable , and even ...
... labour and expense , died in a short time after , a melancholy instance of unrewarded merit . His daughter possessed uncommon talents , and , though blind , had an alacrity of mind that made her conversation agreeable , and even ...
xxxviii. oldal
... labour past , Beheld his lexicon complete at last , And weary of his task , with wond'ring eyes , Saw , from words pil'd on words , a fabric rise , He curs'd the industry , inertly strong , In creeping toil that could persist so long ...
... labour past , Beheld his lexicon complete at last , And weary of his task , with wond'ring eyes , Saw , from words pil'd on words , a fabric rise , He curs'd the industry , inertly strong , In creeping toil that could persist so long ...
xl. oldal
... labour drudge my life away ? Such is the picture for which Dr. Johnson sat to himself . He gives the prominent features of his character ; his lassitude , his morbid melancholy , his love of fame , his dejection , his tavern- parties ...
... labour drudge my life away ? Such is the picture for which Dr. Johnson sat to himself . He gives the prominent features of his character ; his lassitude , his morbid melancholy , his love of fame , his dejection , his tavern- parties ...
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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.