The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ... |
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affected againſt appear beauty becauſe become better called character common confidered continue crime danger death defire Doctor duty eafily equally evil excellence expected eyes faid fame faults fays fear feems feldom fhall fhew fhould firft folly fome fometimes foon formed fortune frequently fubject fuch fuffer gain give hands happens happineſs heart himſelf hope human Ibid Idler imagination Johnſon kind knowledge known labour laft laws lefs live loft mankind manners means mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary never Notes obferved obtained once opinion ourſelves paffions pain performance perhaps pleaſe pleaſure Preface pride Prince produce Rambler reafon receive repentance rules Shakeſpeare themſelves things thofe thoſe thoughts tion truth uſe virtue whofe whoſe writer
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Page lxx - Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, and brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
Page 279 - ... remote from each other, and where is the absurdity of allowing that space to represent first Athens and then Sicily which was always known to be neither Sicily nor Athens, but a modern theatre...
Page 273 - It is credited, whenever it moves, as a just picture of a real original; as representing to the auditor what he would himself feel, if he were to do or suffer what is there feigned to be suffered or to be done. The reflection that strikes the heart is not, that the evils before us are real evils, but that they are evils to which we ourselves may be exposed.
Page 196 - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue.
Page 228 - To be of no church is dangerous. Religion, of which the rewards are distant, and which is animated only by faith and hope, will glide by degrees out of the mind, unless it be invigorated and reimpressed by external ordinances, by stated calls to worship, and the salutary influence of example.
Page 4 - THE task of an author is, either to teach what is not known, or to recommend known truths by his manner of adorning them...
Page 36 - The teeming mother, anxious for her race, Begs for each birth the fortune of a face ; Yet Vane could tell what ills from beauty spring ; And Sedley curs'd the form that pleas'da king.
Page 79 - Poetry loses its lustre and its power, because it is applied to the decoration of something more excellent than itself. All that pious verse can do, is to help the memory and delight the ear, and for these purposes it may be very useful ; but it supplies nothing to the mind.
Page 219 - A physician in a great city seems to be the mere plaything of fortune; his degree of reputation is, for the most part, totally casual — they that employ him know not his excellence; they that reject him know not his deficience. By any acute observer who had looked on the transactions of the medical world for half a century a very curious book might be written on the "Fortune of Physicians.
Page 189 - To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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| Title | The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, ... The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous, to which are Now Added, Biographical Anecdotes of the Doctor, Selected from the Late Productions of Mrs. Piozzi, Mr. Boswell, Hester Lynch Piozzi |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | G. Kearsley, 1787 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 4 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 297 pages |
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