The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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Strana 26
... and gained feveral of the king's plates , as he is now every day boafting , at the ex- pence pence of very little more than ten times their value 26 THE ADVENTURER , N ° 53 . MISARGYRUS's account of his companions in the Fleet.
... and gained feveral of the king's plates , as he is now every day boafting , at the ex- pence pence of very little more than ten times their value 26 THE ADVENTURER , N ° 53 . MISARGYRUS's account of his companions in the Fleet.
Strana 35
... kings , would have concluded his account of its efficacy with its influence over naval command- ers , had he not alluded to fome fact then current in the mouths of men , and therefore more interesting for a time than the conquests of ...
... kings , would have concluded his account of its efficacy with its influence over naval command- ers , had he not alluded to fome fact then current in the mouths of men , and therefore more interesting for a time than the conquests of ...
Strana 86
... king Ferdinand in the difcovery of the other hemifphere , the failors , with whom he embarked in the expedition , had fo little confidence in their commander , that after having been long at fea looking for coafts , which they expected ...
... king Ferdinand in the difcovery of the other hemifphere , the failors , with whom he embarked in the expedition , had fo little confidence in their commander , that after having been long at fea looking for coafts , which they expected ...
Strana 246
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a fenator of Rome , fhould play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is repre- fented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare ...
... kings as not completely royal . Dennis is offended , that Menenius , a fenator of Rome , fhould play the buffoon ; and Voltaire perhaps thinks de- cency violated when the Danish ufurper is repre- fented as a drunkard . But Shakespeare ...
Strana 258
... kings , while armies are levied and towns befieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw courting his miftrefs , fhall lament the un- timely fall of his fon . The mind revolts from evi- dent falfehood , and ...
... kings , while armies are levied and towns befieged , while an exile wanders and returns , or till he whom they faw courting his miftrefs , fhall lament the un- timely fall of his fon . The mind revolts from evi- dent falfehood , and ...
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Strana 232 - Nothing can please many, and please long, but just representations of general nature. Particular manners can be known to few, and therefore few only can judge how nearly they are copied. The irregular combinations of fanciful invention may delight awhile, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted, and the mind can only repose on the stability of truth.
Strana 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Strana 243 - He carries his persons indifferently through right and wrong, and at the close dismisses them without further care, and leaves their examples to operate by chance. This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate, for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
Strana 263 - ... whether from all his successors more maxims of theoretical knowledge, or more rules of practical prudence, can be collected, than he alone has given to his country.
Strana 285 - In restoring the author's works to their integrity, I have considered the punctuation as wholly in my power; for what could be their care of colons and commas, who corrupted words and sentences?
Strana 232 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all modern writers, the poet of Nature; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
Strana 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Strana 251 - If there be any fallacy, it is not that we fancy the players, but that we fancy ourselves unhappy for a moment; but we rather lament the possibility, than suppose the presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness of fiction ; if we thought murders and treasons real, they would please no more.
Strana 249 - There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock, or why an hour should not be a century in that calenture of the brains that can make the stage a field.
Strana 246 - A quibble is the golden apple for which he will always turn aside from his career, or stoop from his elevation. A quibble, poor and barren as it is, gave him such delight that he was content to purchase it by the sacrifice of reason, propriety and truth. A quibble was to him the fatal Cleopatra for which he lost the world, and was content to lose it.