The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: The Adventurer and Idler |
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able amusement appear attention beauty believe better called cause character common considered continued conversation danger delight desire discovered easily easy effect endeavour equally excellence expected eyes force fortune frequently friends gain give greater hand happiness honour hope hour human idleness Idler imagination keep kind knowledge known labour lady language learned less live longer look lost mankind means mind misery morning nature necessary never night objects observed once opinion pain passed performance perhaps pleasing pleasure praise present produce proper publick raised reason received rest rich scarcely seldom sentiments sometimes soon success suffered surely talk tell thing thought tion told true truth universal virtue whole wish write
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Page 276 - 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 191 - Wales : together with their provisional allowance during confinement ; as reported to the society for the discharge and relief of small debtors, in April, May, June, &c., 18oo. 4to., 18oo. An account of the rise, progress and present state of the society for the discharge and relief of persons imprisoned for small debts throughout England and Wales.
Page 287 - 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 339 - 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 thou hast gained power and preserved it, are to thee no longer necessary or useful ; impart to me the secret of thy conduct, and teach me the plan upon which thy wisdom has built thy fortune.
Page 275 - She bow'd, obey'd him, and cut paper. This vexing him who gave her birth, Thought by all Heaven a burning shame, What does she next, but bids on earth Her Burlington do just the same?
Page 340 - The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design. I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within. I regarded knowledge as the highest...
Page 166 - No species of literary men has lately been so much multiplied as the writers of news. Not many years ago the nation was content with one Gazette; but now we have not only in the metropolis papers for every morning and every evening, but almost every large town has its weekly historian, who regularly circulates his periodical intelligence...
Page 264 - That some of them have been adopted by him unnecessarily, may perhaps be allowed ; but in general they are evidently an advantage, for without them his stately ideas would be confined and cramped. "He that thinks with more extent than another, will want words of larger meaning.
Page 200 - Such is the condition of our present existence, that life must one time lose its associations, and every inhabitant of the earth must walk downward to the grave alone and unregarded, without any partner of his joy or grief, without any interested witness of his misfortunes or success.
Page 73 - 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...
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 | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 19 Oct 2005 |
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