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 Works of Mrs. Piozzi, His Life, Recently Published by Mr. Boswell, and Other Authentic Testimonies : Also His Will, and the Sermon He Wrote for the Late Doctor DoddG. Kearsley ... [and 5 others], 1804 - 394 páginas |
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... ibid . Cheats 147 Delay 176 Children Choice 161 Delicacy 175 150 Delusion 181 City 168 Dependence 173 Civility 152 Desire 170 Cleanliness 151 Devotion 177 Commerce 141 Difficulty 181 ... ibid . Mind ibid . Opinion ibid . Parents ( viii )
... ibid . Cheats 147 Delay 176 Children Choice 161 Delicacy 175 150 Delusion 181 City 168 Dependence 173 Civility 152 Desire 170 Cleanliness 151 Devotion 177 Commerce 141 Difficulty 181 ... ibid . Mind ibid . Opinion ibid . Parents ( viii )
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... ibid . Jesting ibid . Fame 194 Ignorance 238 Fancy 207 Ignorance compared Fashion 208 with Confidence 239 Father 195 Ignorance compared Favour 207 with Knowledge 238 Faults ibid . Imagination 242 Fear 203 Imitation 232 Flattery Folly ...
... ibid . Jesting ibid . Fame 194 Ignorance 238 Fancy 207 Ignorance compared Fashion 208 with Confidence 239 Father 195 Ignorance compared Favour 207 with Knowledge 238 Faults ibid . Imagination 242 Fear 203 Imitation 232 Flattery Folly ...
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... ibid . Mind ibid . Opinion ibid . Parents Page Poverty and Idleness 305 Riches Prudence and Justice 314. Page Integrity Intelligence 237 Maxims 283 243 Meanness 274 Intelligence , Foreign Memory ibid . and Domestic 243 Merchant ibid ...
... ibid . Mind ibid . Opinion ibid . Parents Page Poverty and Idleness 305 Riches Prudence and Justice 314. Page Integrity Intelligence 237 Maxims 283 243 Meanness 274 Intelligence , Foreign Memory ibid . and Domestic 243 Merchant ibid ...
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... ibid . Reason and Fancy 344 Perseverance 316 Rebellion 338 Philosophy 319 Recollection 339 Physician ibid . Refinement 338 Piety 314 Reflection 337 Pity 318 Relaxation 340 Plagiarism 324 Religion 328 Player 321 Repentance 341 Pleasure ...
... ibid . Reason and Fancy 344 Perseverance 316 Rebellion 338 Philosophy 319 Recollection 339 Physician ibid . Refinement 338 Piety 314 Reflection 337 Pity 318 Relaxation 340 Plagiarism 324 Religion 328 Player 321 Repentance 341 Pleasure ...
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... ibid . Shame 356 Virtue 374 Simile 355 Virtue , Access of 377 Singularity 353 Virtue , Intentional 376 357 Virtue , Romantic ibid . 354 Solitude 350 U. Sorrow ibid . Utility 378 358 Understanding ibid . Statesmen Study 360 Undertakings , ...
... ibid . Shame 356 Virtue 374 Simile 355 Virtue , Access of 377 Singularity 353 Virtue , Intentional 376 357 Virtue , Romantic ibid . 354 Solitude 350 U. Sorrow ibid . Utility 378 358 Understanding ibid . Statesmen Study 360 Undertakings , ...
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beauty calamity censure character common considered contempt Cowley crime danger daughters of fortune death delight desire Doctor Dryden easily endeavour equally evil excellence eyes Falkland Islands fame faults favour fear folly fortune frequently friendship genius give guilt happiness honour hope human Ibid idle Idler imagination Johnson kind knowledge known labour laws less lives Lord mankind MARRIAGE ment mind miscarriage misery nation nature necessary ness never Notes upon Shakspeare observed once opinion ourselves pain panegyric passions perhaps pleased pleasure poet poetry polished language Pope praise Preface to Shakspeare pride Prince of Abyssinia produce prudence Rambler reason repentance riches Roger Ascham SAMUEL JOHNSON says scarcely seldom Sir Joshua Reynolds Sir Thomas Browne sometimes stancy Streatham suffer superiority things thought Thrale tion truth vanity virtue Western Islands wish writer
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Página 47 - 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 46 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment of your address ; and could not forbear to wish that I might boast myself Le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre...
Página 256 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish if it were possible. 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.
Página 46 - World,' that two papers, in which my ' 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 47 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
Página 138 - The essence of poetry is invention ; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights. The topics of devotion are few, and being few are universally known ; but, few as they are, they can be made no more ; they can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression.
Página 119 - His bonds of debt, and mortgages of lands; Or views his coffers with suspicious eyes, Unlocks his gold, and counts it till he dies.
Página 47 - 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. 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 91 - And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely ; who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Página 270 - Implore His aid, in His decisions rest, Secure, whate'er He gives, He gives the best. Yet when the sense of sacred presence fires, And strong devotion to the skies aspires, Pour forth thy fervours for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will...