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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... neglected for the fake of books 231 181 The history of an adventurer in lotteries 237 182 The hiftory of Leviculus , the fortune - hunter 243 183 The influence of envy and intereft compared 249 184 The fubject of effays often fuggefted ...
... neglected for the fake of books 231 181 The history of an adventurer in lotteries 237 182 The hiftory of Leviculus , the fortune - hunter 243 183 The influence of envy and intereft compared 249 184 The fubject of effays often fuggefted ...
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... neglected for the fake of books 231 181 The hiftory of an adventurer in lotteries 182 The history of Leviculus , the fortune - hunter 237 243 183 The influence of envy and interest compared 249 184 The fubject of effays often fuggefted ...
... neglected for the fake of books 231 181 The hiftory of an adventurer in lotteries 182 The history of Leviculus , the fortune - hunter 237 243 183 The influence of envy and interest compared 249 184 The fubject of effays often fuggefted ...
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... neglected , and defolate , I easily conceived that there was fomething to be explained , and told him that I fuppofed it only fairy ground , on which we might venture by day - light without danger , The danger , fays he , is indeed only ...
... neglected , and defolate , I easily conceived that there was fomething to be explained , and told him that I fuppofed it only fairy ground , on which we might venture by day - light without danger , The danger , fays he , is indeed only ...
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... neglected . The hope of fame is neceffarily connected with fuch confiderations as muft abate the ardor of con- fidence , and reprefs the vigour of purfuit . Who- D 3 ever ever claims renown from any kind of excellence , expects N ° 146 ...
... neglected . The hope of fame is neceffarily connected with fuch confiderations as muft abate the ardor of con- fidence , and reprefs the vigour of purfuit . Who- D 3 ever ever claims renown from any kind of excellence , expects N ° 146 ...
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... neglect , when death ftripped them of their cafual influence , and neither fortune nor patronage operated in their favour . Among those who have better claims to regard , the honour paid to their memory is commonly propor- tionate to ...
... neglect , when death ftripped them of their cafual influence , and neither fortune nor patronage operated in their favour . Among those who have better claims to regard , the honour paid to their memory is commonly propor- tionate to ...
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Pagina 186 - We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered ; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.
Pagina 207 - ... what are the appearances that thus powerfully excite his risibility, he will find among them neither poverty nor disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult...
Pagina 377 - I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause, if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue, and confidence to truth.
Pagina 339 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
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...
Pagina 376 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age.
Pagina 78 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Pagina 146 - Come, thick night ! And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold...