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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... raising reputation . The various fpecies of detractors 145 Petty writers not to be despised 146 An account of an author travelling in queft of his own character . The uncertainty of fame 147 The courtier's efteem of affurance 148 The ...
... raising reputation . The various fpecies of detractors 145 Petty writers not to be despised 146 An account of an author travelling in queft of his own character . The uncertainty of fame 147 The courtier's efteem of affurance 148 The ...
Pagina 4
... raise disguft , with an understanding too feeble to be dreaded , and too forcible to be defpifed . The other parts of the character are more fubject to va- riation ; it was formerly effential to a wit , that half his back fhould be ...
... raise disguft , with an understanding too feeble to be dreaded , and too forcible to be defpifed . The other parts of the character are more fubject to va- riation ; it was formerly effential to a wit , that half his back fhould be ...
Pagina 5
... raises expectation of another . I know that among men of learning and afperity , the retainers to the female world are ... raise merriment without images , to harafs his imagination in queft of thoughts which he cannot ftart , and his ...
... raises expectation of another . I know that among men of learning and afperity , the retainers to the female world are ... raise merriment without images , to harafs his imagination in queft of thoughts which he cannot ftart , and his ...
Pagina 36
... raise laughter . He finds that his ene- mies , such as fuperiority will always raife , have been industrious , while his performance was in the prefs , to vilify and blaft it ; and that the bookfeller , whom he had resolved to enrich ...
... raise laughter . He finds that his ene- mies , such as fuperiority will always raife , have been industrious , while his performance was in the prefs , to vilify and blaft it ; and that the bookfeller , whom he had resolved to enrich ...
Pagina 52
... raise the paffions with too much violence against the man to whom it is imputed . In proportion as guilt is more enormous , it ought to be afcertained by stronger evidence . The charge against ingratitude is very general ; almost every ...
... raise the paffions with too much violence against the man to whom it is imputed . In proportion as guilt is more enormous , it ought to be afcertained by stronger evidence . The charge against ingratitude is very general ; almost every ...
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affiftance againſt amuſement becauſe buſineſs cauſe cenfure cife confidered contempt converfation curiofity danger defign defire dignity diſcovered eafily endeavour enquiry envy equally eſcape eſtabliſhed expected expence eyes fame favour fcarcely fecure feems feldom felves fentiments fhall fhort fhould fince firft firſt folicited fome fometimes foon forrow fortune friends friendſhip ftate ftudy fubject fuccefs fuch fuffer fufficient fuperiority fupply fuppofed fupport furely happineſs himſelf honour hope houſe imagination increaſed induſtry infolence inftruction infult intereft itſelf kindneſs labour laft laſt learning lefs loft mankind ment mifery mind moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary neceffity nefs never NUMB obfcurity obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffion pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffeffion praiſe prefent promifes publick purchaſed purpoſe racter raiſe RAMBLER reaſon refolved reft ſcience ſhe ſmall ſome ſtate ſtudy thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thought tion underſtanding univerfal uſe vanity vifits virtue whofe whoſe
Populaire passages
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...