The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Luke Hansard, 1806 |
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xcviii. oldal
... flight . In satires , epistles , and odes would they cope ? Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope . And Johnson , well armed , like a hero of yore , Has beat forty French , and will beat forty more . Though there exists ...
... flight . In satires , epistles , and odes would they cope ? Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope . And Johnson , well armed , like a hero of yore , Has beat forty French , and will beat forty more . Though there exists ...
xcix. oldal
... flights of an idle , but luxuriant imagination , or in having recourse to social pleasures , which are apt to render steady drudgery disgusting . After his great moral work , the Rambler , was begun , Johnson , for a time , was engaged ...
... flights of an idle , but luxuriant imagination , or in having recourse to social pleasures , which are apt to render steady drudgery disgusting . After his great moral work , the Rambler , was begun , Johnson , for a time , was engaged ...
17. oldal
... flight , and insult mocks their end . Love ends with hope , the sinking statesman's door Pours in the morning worshipper no more ; For growing names the weekly scribbler lies , To growing wealth the dedicator flies ; * Ver . 56-107 ...
... flight , and insult mocks their end . Love ends with hope , the sinking statesman's door Pours in the morning worshipper no more ; For growing names the weekly scribbler lies , To growing wealth the dedicator flies ; * Ver . 56-107 ...
22. oldal
... single skiff to speed his flight remains ; The incumber'd oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast Through purple billows and a floating host . * Ver . 168-187 . 〃 The bold Bavarian , in a luckless hour , 22 THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES .
... single skiff to speed his flight remains ; The incumber'd oar scarce leaves the dreaded coast Through purple billows and a floating host . * Ver . 168-187 . 〃 The bold Bavarian , in a luckless hour , 22 THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES .
40. oldal
... flight , Deep in a winding creek a galley lies , Mann'd with the bravest of our fellow - captives , Selected by my care a hardy band , That long to hail thee chief . LEONTIUS . But what avails So small a force ? or why should Cali fly ...
... flight , Deep in a winding creek a galley lies , Mann'd with the bravest of our fellow - captives , Selected by my care a hardy band , That long to hail thee chief . LEONTIUS . But what avails So small a force ? or why should Cali fly ...
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xxxi. oldal - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
xxxii. oldal - 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. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
20. oldal - Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge the gen'rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a...
15. oldal - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
xxxiv. oldal - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
23. oldal - ... prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r...
lix. oldal - MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
21. oldal - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
xlix. oldal - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room.
21. oldal - The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For...