The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Luke Hansard, 1806 |
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... rage I defy . Your abilities , since your , Homer , are not formidable ; and what I hear of your morals , inclines me to pay regard , not to what you shall say , but to what you shall prove . You may print this if you will . " SAM ...
... rage I defy . Your abilities , since your , Homer , are not formidable ; and what I hear of your morals , inclines me to pay regard , not to what you shall say , but to what you shall prove . You may print this if you will . " SAM ...
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... rage and horror with which he is said to have been always filled when the slightest symptom of reli- gious incredulity appeared in the mind of any person with whom he conversed . These dis- tempered symptoms could not have exhibited ...
... rage and horror with which he is said to have been always filled when the slightest symptom of reli- gious incredulity appeared in the mind of any person with whom he conversed . These dis- tempered symptoms could not have exhibited ...
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... rage , Thy satire point , and animate thy page . 37 Felices proavorum atavos , felicia dicas Secula , quæ quondam sub regibus atque tribunis Viderunt una contentam carcere Romam . 38 His alias poteram , & pluries subnectere causas : Sed ...
... rage , Thy satire point , and animate thy page . 37 Felices proavorum atavos , felicia dicas Secula , quæ quondam sub regibus atque tribunis Viderunt una contentam carcere Romam . 38 His alias poteram , & pluries subnectere causas : Sed ...
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... rage of power , And leaves the wealthy traitor in the Tower , Untouch'd his cottage , and his slumbers sound , Tho ' Confiscation's vultures hover round . The needy traveller , serene and gay , Walks the wild heath , and sings his toil ...
... rage of power , And leaves the wealthy traitor in the Tower , Untouch'd his cottage , and his slumbers sound , Tho ' Confiscation's vultures hover round . The needy traveller , serene and gay , Walks the wild heath , and sings his toil ...
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... rage with treach'rous skill , And mould his passions till they make his will . Unnumber'd maladjes his joints invade , Lay siege to life , and press the dire blockade ; But , unextinguish'd , Av'rice still remains , And dreaded losses ...
... rage with treach'rous skill , And mould his passions till they make his will . Unnumber'd maladjes his joints invade , Lay siege to life , and press the dire blockade ; But , unextinguish'd , Av'rice still remains , And dreaded losses ...
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Página xxxi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Página xxxii - 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.
Página 20 - 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...
Página 15 - 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...
Página xxxiv - 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.
Página 23 - ... 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...
Página lix - 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.
Página 21 - 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...
Página xlix - 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.
Página 21 - 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...