The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His WorksLeavitt & Allen, 1853 - 160 pàgines |
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Pàgina 15
... . In age we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to prompt them :: we are able to plan schemes and regu ate ineasures , but have not time remaining to bring them to Rambler , JOHNSON . 15.
... . In age we have knowledge and prudence , without spirit to exert , or motives to prompt them :: we are able to plan schemes and regu ate ineasures , but have not time remaining to bring them to Rambler , JOHNSON . 15.
Pàgina 33
... and rational felicity . Confidence . Ibid . vol . 1 It may be no less dangerous to claim , on certain occasions , too little than too much There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity , to 3 JOHNSON . 33 Business. ...
... and rational felicity . Confidence . Ibid . vol . 1 It may be no less dangerous to claim , on certain occasions , too little than too much There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity , to 3 JOHNSON . 33 Business. ...
Pàgina 34
Choice Selections from His Works Samuel Johnson. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity , to which we often yield as to a resistless power ; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others , who too apparently ...
Choice Selections from His Works Samuel Johnson. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity , to which we often yield as to a resistless power ; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others , who too apparently ...
Pàgina 35
... spirit , it can subsist more commo- diously in any place than in remote and unprofitable provinces , where it can com monly do little harm , and whence it may be called forth at any sudden exigence . It must , however , be confessed ...
... spirit , it can subsist more commo- diously in any place than in remote and unprofitable provinces , where it can com monly do little harm , and whence it may be called forth at any sudden exigence . It must , however , be confessed ...
Pàgina 48
... spirit of neglecting futurity . The minister forms an expedient to suspend or perplex an inquiry into his measures for à few months , and applauds and triumphs in his own dexterity . The peer puts off his creditor for the pres- ent day ...
... spirit of neglecting futurity . The minister forms an expedient to suspend or perplex an inquiry into his measures for à few months , and applauds and triumphs in his own dexterity . The peer puts off his creditor for the pres- ent day ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 121 - 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. Far from me and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the ruins...
Pàgina 32 - He shall not drop, said my uncle Toby, firmly. A-wcll-a'day — do what we can for him, said Trim, maintaining his point, — the poor soul will die. He shall not die, by G— , cried my uncle Toby. — The ACCUSING SPIRIT, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in, and the RECORDING ANGEL, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
Pàgina 157 - 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.
Pàgina 32 - He will never march, an' please your honour, in this world, said the corporal: He will march, said my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed, with one shoe off: An' please your honour, said the corporal, he will never march, but to his grave: He shall march, cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had a shoe on, though without advancing an inch, — he shall march to his regiment...
Pàgina 148 - What better can we do, than to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent, and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg, with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humiliation meek?
Pàgina 26 - I heard the poor gentleman say his prayers last night, said the landlady, very devoutly, and with my own ears, or I could not have believed it. Are you sure of it? replied the curate. A soldier, an' please your reverence, said I, prays as often (of his own accord) as a parson; and when he is fighting for his king, and for his own life, and for his honour too, he has the most reason to pray to God of any one in the whole world. 'Twas well said of thee, Trim, said my uncle Toby. But when a soldier,...
Pàgina 13 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and...
Pàgina 26 - I thought it wrong, added the corporal. I think so, too, said my uncle Toby. When the lieutenant had taken his glass of sack and toast he felt himself a little revived, and sent down into the kitchen to let me know that in about ten minutes he should be glad if I would step upstairs. I believe...
Pàgina 146 - Jonathan (for that was the coachman's name), or Shrovetide, or any tide or time past, to this ? Are we not here now, continued the corporal (striking the end of his stick perpendicularly upon the floor, so as to give an idea of health and stability) — and are we not...
Pàgina 90 - I'll not hurt a hair of thy head: — Go, says he, lifting up the sash, and opening his hand as he spoke, to let it escape; — go, poor devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.