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Page 86 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Page 589 - Difference of thoughts will produce difference of language. He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning...
Page 610 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 89 - Fathers are wont to lay up for their sons, Thou for thy son art bent to lay out all...
Page 622 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Page 400 - ... performed. He that waits for an opportunity to do much at once, may breathe out his life in idle wishes, and regret, in the last hour, his useless intentions, and barren zeal.
Page 466 - Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained; but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom; they may effectually resolve to escape the tyrant, whom they will very vainly resolve to conquer.
Page 216 - You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry " Hold, hold !
Page 216 - Yet this sentiment is weakened by the name of an instrument used by butchers and cooks in the meanest employments; we do not immediately conceive that any crime of importance is to be committed with a knife; or who does not, at last, from the long habit of connecting a knife with sordid offices, feel aversion rather than terror?
Page 90 - No strength of man or fiercest wild beast could withstand ; Who tore the lion, as the lion tears the kid...
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 2 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | Cowie, 1825 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Sep 2007 |
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