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... heart of the country . Then follows a description of Abys- finia , formerly the largest empire of which we have an account in history . It extended from the Red Sea to the kingdom of Congo , and from Egypt to the Indian Sea , con ...
... heart of the country . Then follows a description of Abys- finia , formerly the largest empire of which we have an account in history . It extended from the Red Sea to the kingdom of Congo , and from Egypt to the Indian Sea , con ...
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... heart ? With a mind naturally vigorous , and quick . ened by neceffity , Johnson formed a multi- plicity of projects ; but most of them proved abortive . A number of small tracts iffued from C 4 from his pen with wonderful rapidity ...
... heart ? With a mind naturally vigorous , and quick . ened by neceffity , Johnson formed a multi- plicity of projects ; but most of them proved abortive . A number of small tracts iffued from C 4 from his pen with wonderful rapidity ...
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... heart . " There may , perhaps , be a degree of fame- nefs in this regular way of tracing an author from one work to another , and the reader may feel the effect of a tedious monotony ; but in the life of Johnson there are no other land ...
... heart . " There may , perhaps , be a degree of fame- nefs in this regular way of tracing an author from one work to another , and the reader may feel the effect of a tedious monotony ; but in the life of Johnson there are no other land ...
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... heart , tow- ered above the petty arts of fraud and im- position , against an injudicious biographer , who undertook to be his editor , and the tector of his memory . Another writer , Dr. Towers , in an Effay on the Life and Cha- racter ...
... heart , tow- ered above the petty arts of fraud and im- position , against an injudicious biographer , who undertook to be his editor , and the tector of his memory . Another writer , Dr. Towers , in an Effay on the Life and Cha- racter ...
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... heart , No gleam of wit or fancy can impart ; Whate'er the caufe , from me no numbers flow , No vifions warm me , and no raptures glow . f 2 A mind A mind like Scaliger's , fuperior ftill , No grief GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . 83.
... heart , No gleam of wit or fancy can impart ; Whate'er the caufe , from me no numbers flow , No vifions warm me , and no raptures glow . f 2 A mind A mind like Scaliger's , fuperior ftill , No grief GENIUS OF DR . JOHNSON . 83.
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Página 75 - Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
Página 77 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
Página 21 - On what foundation stands the warrior's pride, How just his hopes let Swedish Charles decide ; A frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labours tire ; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquer'd lord of pleasure and of pain ; No joys to him pacific...
Página 77 - ... it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary. and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
Página 77 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Página 57 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 6 - What check restrain your thirst of pow'r and gold ? Behold rebellious virtue quite o'erthrown, Behold our fame, our wealth, our lives your own. To such, a groaning nation's spoils are giv'n, When public crimes...
Página 20 - Ray, And pour on misty Doubt resistless Day ; Should no false Kindness lure to loose Delight, Nor Praise relax, nor Difficulty fright ; Should tempting...
Página 22 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
Página 29 - Ah! let not censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.