Select Essays of Dr. Johnson, 1권J.M. Dent, 1889 - 4페이지 |
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... gain ; for I am con- vinced that Johnson's reputation as an Essayist would from the first have stood far higher had many of his Ramblers never been written . Like other great writers , he did not always " find out where his talents lay ...
... gain ; for I am con- vinced that Johnson's reputation as an Essayist would from the first have stood far higher had many of his Ramblers never been written . Like other great writers , he did not always " find out where his talents lay ...
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... gain by " loading his style . " He had no gaps to bridge over by epithets . His general method of composition seems , however , to have been the same as in his Rambler . He delayed as long as he could , and then wrote with great speed ...
... gain by " loading his style . " He had no gaps to bridge over by epithets . His general method of composition seems , however , to have been the same as in his Rambler . He delayed as long as he could , and then wrote with great speed ...
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... gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not feel , to excite compassion by confessing weakness of which they are not convinced ; and others to attract regard by a shew of openness and magna- nimity ...
... gain favour by bribing the judge with an appearance of respect which they do not feel , to excite compassion by confessing weakness of which they are not convinced ; and others to attract regard by a shew of openness and magna- nimity ...
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... gain by this pre - occupation of the soul , arises that conflict between opposite desires in the first endeavours after a religious life ; which , however enthusiastically it may have been de- scribed , or however contemptuously ...
... gain by this pre - occupation of the soul , arises that conflict between opposite desires in the first endeavours after a religious life ; which , however enthusiastically it may have been de- scribed , or however contemptuously ...
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... gain our attention , which the business or diversions of the world are always calling off by contrary attractions . The great art therefore of piety , and the end for which all the rites of religion seem to be in- stituted , is the ...
... gain our attention , which the business or diversions of the world are always calling off by contrary attractions . The great art therefore of piety , and the end for which all the rites of religion seem to be in- stituted , is the ...
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112 페이지 - How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
175 페이지 - To heaven removed where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er Elysian flowers her amber stream...
169 페이지 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
103 페이지 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
185 페이지 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
181 페이지 - The variety of pauses, so much boasted by the lovers of blank verse, changes the measures of an English poet to the periods of a declaimer ; and there are only a few skilful and happy readers of Milton, who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin. Blank verse, said an ingenious critic, seems to be verse only to the eye.
159 페이지 - ... make the association pleasing, and give probable hopes that they shall be disjoined by an easy separation. It was a principle among the ancients, that acute diseases are from heaven, and chronical from ourselves; the dart of death indeed falls from heaven, but we poison it by our own misconduct; to die Is the fate of man, but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly.
113 페이지 - To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labour tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
169 페이지 - The God that made both sky, air, earth, and heaven Which they beheld, the moon's resplendent globe, And starry pole. Thou also madest the night, Maker Omnipotent, and thou the day...
109 페이지 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.