The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Essay on the life and genius of Dr. Johnson [by Arthur Murphy]. Poems, and talesW. Pickering, 1825 |
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i. oldal
... , Vane , and Sedley , which are brought forward in the poem on the Vanity of Human Wishes , as exam- ples of inefficiency of either learning or beauty , to shield their a possessors from distress , have exercised inquiry . The following.
... , Vane , and Sedley , which are brought forward in the poem on the Vanity of Human Wishes , as exam- ples of inefficiency of either learning or beauty , to shield their a possessors from distress , have exercised inquiry . The following.
iii. oldal
... beauty spring , " was not Lady Vane , the subject of Smollett's memoirs , in Peregrine Pickle , but , according to Mr. Malone , she was Anne Vane , mistress to Frederick prince of Wales , and died in 1736 , not long before Johnson ...
... beauty spring , " was not Lady Vane , the subject of Smollett's memoirs , in Peregrine Pickle , but , according to Mr. Malone , she was Anne Vane , mistress to Frederick prince of Wales , and died in 1736 , not long before Johnson ...
xxxi. oldal
... beauty . With the singularity of his prayers for his deceased wife , from that time to the end of his days , the world is sufficiently acquainted . On Easter day , 22nd April , 1764 , his memorandum says : " Thought on Tetty , poor dear ...
... beauty . With the singularity of his prayers for his deceased wife , from that time to the end of his days , the world is sufficiently acquainted . On Easter day , 22nd April , 1764 , his memorandum says : " Thought on Tetty , poor dear ...
lxix. oldal
... beauty . Juvenal's conclusion is worthy of a christian poet , and such a pen as Johnson's . " Let us , " he says , " leave it to the gods to judge what is fittest for us . Man is dearer to his creator than to himself . If we must pray ...
... beauty . Juvenal's conclusion is worthy of a christian poet , and such a pen as Johnson's . " Let us , " he says , " leave it to the gods to judge what is fittest for us . Man is dearer to his creator than to himself . If we must pray ...
lxxxi. oldal
... beauty of the moral theory consist in the premises , and the chain of reasoning that leads to the conclusion ? May not truth , as Johnson himself says , be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images ? Pope's doctrine ...
... beauty of the moral theory consist in the premises , and the chain of reasoning that leads to the conclusion ? May not truth , as Johnson himself says , be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate images ? Pope's doctrine ...
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xxxv. oldal - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and •cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
18. oldal - Condemn'da needy supplicant to wait, While ladies interpose, and slaves debate. But did not Chance at length her error mend? Did no subverted empire mark his end? Did rival monarchs give the fatal wound? Or hostile millions press him to the ground? His fall was destin'd to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand; He left the name, at which the world grew pale To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
xxxv. oldal - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address, and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
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.
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...
xxvi. oldal - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
127. oldal - In life can love be bought with gold ? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold ? No — all that's worth a wish — a thought, Fair virtue gives unbrib'd, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. With science tread the wond'rous way, Or learn the Muses...
222. oldal - He must divest himself of the prejudices of his age or country ; he must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same...
7. oldal - By numbers here from shame or censure free All crimes are safe, but hated poverty. This, only this, the rigid law pursues ; This, only this, provokes the snarling muse. The sober trader at a tatter'd cloak Wakes from his dream, and labours for a joke; With brisker air the silken courtiers gaze, And turn the varied taunt a thousand ways...
lxxvii. oldal - Ay, sir ; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand. Pol. ' That's very true, my lord. Ham. For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion — 'Have you a daughter ? Pol. I have, my lord. Ham. Let her not walk i' the sun : conception is a blessing ; but not as your daughter may conceive.