The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The ramblerT. Longman, B. White and Son, B. Law, J. Dodsley, H. Baldwin, J. Robson, J Johnson, C. Dilly, T. Vernor, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, T. Cadell, J. Nichols, R. Baldwin, N. Conant, P. Elmsly, F. and C. Rivington, T. Payne, W. Goldsmith, R. Faulder, Leigh and Sotheby, G. Nicol, J. Murray, A. Strahan, W. Lowndes, T. Evans, W. Bent, S. Hayes, G. and T. Wilkie, T. and J. Egerton, W. Fox, P. M.'Queen, Ogilvie and Speale, Darton and Harvey, G. and C. Kearsley, W. Millar, B. C. Collins, and E. Newbery., 1792 |
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Pagina 5
... hope that if you knew at how dear a rate our honours are purchafed , you would look with fome gratulation on our fuccess , and with some pity on our miscarriages . Think on the mifery of him who is condemned to cultivate barrenness and ...
... hope that if you knew at how dear a rate our honours are purchafed , you would look with fome gratulation on our fuccess , and with some pity on our miscarriages . Think on the mifery of him who is condemned to cultivate barrenness and ...
Pagina 16
Samuel Johnson. munication of opinions , lament the deceitfulness of hope , the fugacity of pleasure , the fragility of beauty , and the frequency of calamity ; and for palliatives of these incurable miferies , they would concur in re ...
Samuel Johnson. munication of opinions , lament the deceitfulness of hope , the fugacity of pleasure , the fragility of beauty , and the frequency of calamity ; and for palliatives of these incurable miferies , they would concur in re ...
Pagina 22
... found to hold them together ; and that the attack upon a rifing character fhould be left left to those who had something to hope or fear 22 THE RAMBLER . N ° 144 . The difficulty of raifing reputation The various fpecies of detractors.
... found to hold them together ; and that the attack upon a rifing character fhould be left left to those who had something to hope or fear 22 THE RAMBLER . N ° 144 . The difficulty of raifing reputation The various fpecies of detractors.
Pagina 23
... hope of profit . When any man has endeavoured to deferve distinction , he will be furprised to hear himself cenfured where he could not expect to have been named ; he will find the utmoft acrimony of ma- lice among thofe whom he never ...
... hope of profit . When any man has endeavoured to deferve distinction , he will be furprised to hear himself cenfured where he could not expect to have been named ; he will find the utmoft acrimony of ma- lice among thofe whom he never ...
Pagina 31
... hope of raifing a monument of learning , which neither time nor envy fhall be able to de- stroy . But the authors whom I am now endeavouring to recommend have been too long hackneyed in the ways of men to indulge the chimerical ambition ...
... hope of raifing a monument of learning , which neither time nor envy fhall be able to de- stroy . But the authors whom I am now endeavouring to recommend have been too long hackneyed in the ways of men to indulge the chimerical ambition ...
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Pagina 80 - Of two heroes acting in confederacy agatnft a common enemy, the virtues or dangers will give little emotion, becaufe each claims our concern with the fame right, and the heart lies at reft between equal motives. It ought to be the firft endeavour of a writer to...
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