The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D: In Thirteen Volumes, Volume 14John Stockdale, 1788 |
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... favour of the Britons , may indeed be drawn from the tenderness , with which the author seems to lament his country , and the compaffion he fhows for its approaching calamities . I , who am a defcendant from the Saxons , and therefore ...
... favour of the Britons , may indeed be drawn from the tenderness , with which the author seems to lament his country , and the compaffion he fhows for its approaching calamities . I , who am a defcendant from the Saxons , and therefore ...
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... this opinion , which I am not only inclined to favour by my refpect for the authors of it , but by a natural affection for monarchy , monarchy , and a prevailing inclination to believe , that MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE . 11.
... this opinion , which I am not only inclined to favour by my refpect for the authors of it , but by a natural affection for monarchy , monarchy , and a prevailing inclination to believe , that MARMOR NORFOLCIENSE . 11.
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... favour the world with their own remarks . To this fcheme , which I thought extremely well cal- culated for the public good , and therefore very eagerly communicated to my acquaintance and fellow ftudents , fome objections were ftarted ...
... favour the world with their own remarks . To this fcheme , which I thought extremely well cal- culated for the public good , and therefore very eagerly communicated to my acquaintance and fellow ftudents , fome objections were ftarted ...
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... favour , but of justice ; a miftake into which he could not have fallen , but from a fupine inattention to the defign of the ftatute , which was only to bring poets into fubjection and dependence , not to encourage good writers , but to ...
... favour , but of justice ; a miftake into which he could not have fallen , but from a fupine inattention to the defign of the ftatute , which was only to bring poets into fubjection and dependence , not to encourage good writers , but to ...
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... favour of gin , and of a general difaffection among the people . But as they continue ftill impenetrable , and oblige us ftill to affign our annual reasons , we shall spare no endeavours to procure fuch as may be more fatisfactory than ...
... favour of gin , and of a general difaffection among the people . But as they continue ftill impenetrable , and oblige us ftill to affign our annual reasons , we shall spare no endeavours to procure fuch as may be more fatisfactory than ...
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Página 121 - It is yet in the power of a great people to reward the poet whose name they boast, and from their alliance to whose genius they claim some kind of superiority to every other nation of the earth; that poet, whose works may possibly be read when every other monument of British greatness shall be obliterated ; to reward him, not with pictures or with medals, which, if he sees, he sees with contempt, but with tokens of gratitude, which he, perhaps, may even now consider as not unworthy the regard of...
Página 76 - Thus thou must do, if thou have it"; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Página 247 - His opinion was, that men had only the appearance of animal life, being really vegetables with a power of motion; and that as the boughs of an oak are dashed together by the storm, that swine may fatten upon the falling acorns, so men are by some unaccountable power driven one against another, till they lose their motion, that vultures may be fed.
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Página 73 - Implored your highness' pardon and set forth A deep repentance: nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death, To throw away the dearest thing he owed As 'twere a careless trifle.
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Página 246 - Since man is so big, said the young ones, how do you kill him ? You are afraid of the wolf and of the bear, by what power are vultures superior to man ? is man more defenceless than a sheep ? We have not the strength of man, returned the mother, and I am sometimes in doubt whether we have the subtilty; and the.
Página 545 - Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Página 96 - It will have blood ; they say, blood will have blood : Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak ; Augurs, and understood relations, have By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth The secret'st man of blood.