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... or on stones decay . u On what foundation stands the warriour'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 ; * O'er love , o'er fear ...
... or on stones decay . u On what foundation stands the warriour'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 ; * O'er love , o'er fear ...
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ABDALLA able affection answered appeared ASPASIA attend beauty CALI called cause considered continued conversation danger dear death delight DEMETRIUS desire entered expected eyes fair fear force give hand happy hear heard heart honour hope hour human imagination Imlac IRENE island Johnson kind knowledge known labour lady late learned leave less letter live look lord lost MAHOMET manners means mind morning nature never night observed once opinion passed passion Pekuah perhaps pleased pleasure pow'r praise present prince princess reason received remains rest rocks says SCENE seems seen short sometimes soon soul suffer suppose surely talk tell thee thing thou thought THRALE tion told travelled truth virtue whole wish write written
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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.
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| Cím | The Works of Samuel Johnson, LLD, with Murphy's Essay, 1. kötet 1. kötet/The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Samuel Johnson The Works of Samuel Johnson, LLD, with Murphy's Essay, Samuel Johnson |
| Szerző | Samuel Johnson |
| Szerkesztő | Robert Lynam |
| Kiadó | George Cowie, 1825 |
| Eredeti forrása | a Michigani Egyetem |
| Digitalizálva: | 2007. ápr. 13. |
| Idézet exportálása | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |