The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Svazek 2Alexander Chalmers 1812 |
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... attention , I have resolved , after many struggles with idleness and diffidence , to give you some account of my entertain- ment in this sober season of universal retreat , and to describe to you the employments of those who look with ...
... attention , I have resolved , after many struggles with idleness and diffidence , to give you some account of my entertain- ment in this sober season of universal retreat , and to describe to you the employments of those who look with ...
Strana 22
... attention , but some opportunity for the exercise of the duties of religion . Every thing that terminated on this side of the grave was received with coldness and indifference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing ...
... attention , but some opportunity for the exercise of the duties of religion . Every thing that terminated on this side of the grave was received with coldness and indifference , and regarded rather in consequence of the habit of valuing ...
Strana 52
... attention can be seized , or the affection agitated , by a tale of love . Those parallel circumstances , and kindred images , to which 52 [ No. 60 . THE RAMBLER . The Contemplation of the Calamities of others, a Remedy for Grief.
... attention can be seized , or the affection agitated , by a tale of love . Those parallel circumstances , and kindred images , to which 52 [ No. 60 . THE RAMBLER . The Contemplation of the Calamities of others, a Remedy for Grief.
Strana 54
... attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents , which produce vulgar greatness , to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies , and display the ...
... attention by a celebrated name ; but the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents , which produce vulgar greatness , to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies , and display the ...
Strana 71
... attention upon foreign objects , which we only behold to depress ourselves , and increase our misery by injurious comparisons . When this opinion of the felicity of others predomi- nates in the heart , so as to excite resolutions No. 63 ...
... attention upon foreign objects , which we only behold to depress ourselves , and increase our misery by injurious comparisons . When this opinion of the felicity of others predomi- nates in the heart , so as to excite resolutions No. 63 ...
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acquaintance amuse ance attention beauty Catiline censure common considered contempt critick curiosity danger daugh delight Demochares desire diligence domestick Dryden duty endeavour envy equally errour excellence expect eyes FALSEHOOD fancy favour fear felicity flatter folly fortune frequently friendship Gabba gayety genius give gratifications happiness heart HESIOD hexameter honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited inclined inquiry JUPITER justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less lives look ments Milton mind misery narchs nature necessary neglect ness never nity numbers observed once opinion ourselves Ovid pain passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts pride publick racter RAMBLER reason regard riches riety SATURDAY scarcely seldom sion sometimes soon sophism sound stancy suffer syllables tenderness thing thought thousand tion tivate TRUTH TUESDAY vanity verse virtue vowels wisdom wish writers
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Strana 244 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Strana 229 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Strana 53 - We are all prompted by the same motives, all deceived by the same fallacies, all animated by hope, obstructed by danger, entangled by desire, and seduced by pleasure.
Strana 56 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
Strana 85 - Thus forlorn and distressed, he wandered through the wild, without knowing whither he was going, or whether he was every moment drawing nearer to safety, or to destruction. At length, not fear, but labour, began to overcome him; his breath grew short, and his knees trembled ; and he was on the point of lying down in resignation to his fate, when he beheld, through the brambles, the glimmer of a taper. He advanced towards the light; and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called...
Strana 86 - He advanced towards the light, and finding that it proceeded from the cottage of a hermit, he called humbly at the door, and obtained admission. The old man set before him such provisions as he had collected for himself, on which Obidah fed with eagerness and gratitude. When the repast was over, " Tell me," said the hermit, " by what chance thou hast been brought hither : I have been now twenty years an inhabitant of the wilderness, in which I never saw a man before.
Strana 172 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Strana 52 - All joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realizes the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.
Strana 55 - ... occurrences. Thus Sallust, the great master of nature, has not forgot, in his account of Catiline, to remark that his walk was now quick, and again slow, as an indication of a mind revolving something with violent commotion.
Strana 57 - ... who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric, and not to be known from one another but by extrinsic and casual circumstances. 'Let me remember (says Hale) when I find myself inclined to pity a criminal, that there is likewise a pity due to the country.