The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Adventurer and Idler |
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able amusement appear attention beauty believe called cause character common considered continued danger delight desire discovered easily easy effect endeavour enjoy equally expected eyes forced fortune frequently friends gain give greater hand happiness honour hope hour human idleness Idler imagination inquire keep kind knowledge known labour lady learned less live longer look lost mankind manner means memory ment mind misery morning nature necessary never night observed once opinion pain passed performance perhaps pleased pleasure praise present produce proper publick raise reason received resolved rest rich scarcely seldom sometimes soon success suffered supplied suppose surely talk tell thing thought tion told truth universal virtue whole wish wonder write
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Page 366 - 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 365 - Reynolds. ejected without diminution of the sense, any curious iteration of the same word, and all unusual, though not ungrammatical structure of speech, destroy the grace of easy poetry. The first lines of Pope's Iliad afford examples of many licences which an easy writer must decline : Achilles...
Page 15 - Just in the gate and in the jaws of hell, Revengeful Cares and sullen Sorrows dwell, And pale Diseases, and repining Age, Want, Fear, and Famine's unresisted rage; Here Toils, and Death, and Death's half-brother, Sleep, Forms terrible to view, their sentry keep; With anxious Pleasures of a guilty mind, Deep Frauds before, and open Force behind; The Furies' iron beds; and Strife, that shakes Her hissing tresses and unfolds her snakes.
Page 379 - 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 432 - thou to whose voice nations have listened, and whose wisdom is known to the extremities of Asia, tell me how I may resemble Omar the prudent. The arts by which...
Page 318 - He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : — When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick...
Page 245 - Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired: but when once he begins to contrive how his sentiments may be received, not with most ease to his reader, but with most advantage to himself, he then transfers his consideration from words to sounds, from sentences to periods, and as he grows more elegant becomes less intelligible.
Page 365 - She bow'd, obey'd him, and cut paper. This vexing him who gave her birth, Thought by all Heaven a burning...
Page 117 - to pass through things temporal," with no other care than " not to lose finally the things eternal," I look with such veneration as inclines me to approve his conduct in the whole, without a minute examination of its parts ; yet I could never forbear to wish, that while vice is every day multiplying...
Page 426 - this palace is the seat of happiness, where pleasure .succeeds to pleasure, and discontent and sorrow can have no admission. Whatever nature has provided for the delight of sense, is here spread forth to be enjoyed. What can mortals hope or imagine, which the master of this palace has not obtained ? The dishes of luxury cover his table, the voice of harmony lulls him in his bowers ; he breathes the fragrance of the groves of Java, and sleeps upon the down of the cygnets of Ganges.
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Adventurer and Idler Microbook library of English literature Oxf. Engl. classics Oxford English classics Volume 4 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Francis Pearson Walesby |
| Publisher | W. Pickering, 1825 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 1 Aug 2006 |
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