The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler |
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able acquaintance action againſt appear attention beauty becauſe believe called character common conſidered contempt continual converſation danger deſire dignity diſcovered eaſily effect endeavour enter equally eſcape excellence expected eyes fame father favour fear feel firſt force fortune frequently gained give hands happened happineſs hear heard heart himſelf honour hope hour houſe human ideas ignorance imagination inclination intereſt knowledge labour ladies laſt learning leſs live look mankind means ment merit mind moſt muſt myſelf nature neceſſary neſs never night NUMB obſerved obtain once opinion pain perform perhaps pleaſe pleaſure praiſe preſent produced raiſe RAMBLER reaſon received regard riches ſame ſee ſeldom ſhall ſhe ſhould ſince ſome ſometimes ſoon ſtate ſuch ſuffer themſelves theſe thing thoſe thought tion underſtanding uſe virtue wealth whoſe writer young
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Page 20 - And, when I die, be sure you let me know Great Homer died three thousand years ago. Why did I write? what sin to me unknown Dipp'd me in ink, my parents', or my own?
Page 99 - Is it not certain that the tragic and comic affections have been moved alternately, with equal force, and that no plays have oftener filled the eye with tears, and the breast with palpitation, than those which are variegated with interludes of mirth ? I do not however think it safe to judge of works of genius, merely by the event.
Page 261 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
Page 225 - ... disease, nor any involuntary or painful defect. The disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur ; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mien ; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.
Page 262 - ... can confer no valuable or permanent reward; of beings who ignorantly judge of what they do not understand, or partially determine what they never have examined ; and whose sentence is therefore of no weight till it has received the ratification of our own conscience.
Page 357 - It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.
Page 204 - ... not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind.
Page 117 - But the truth is, that no man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself.
Page 135 - Every man is rich or poor, according to the proportion between his desires and enjoyments : any enlargement of...
Page 395 - The essays professedly serious, if I have been able to execute my own intentions, will be found exactly conformable to the precepts of Christianity, without any accommodation to the licentiousness and levity of the present age. I therefore look back on this part of my work with pleasure, which no blame or praise of man shall diminish or augment.
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| Title | The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler Volume 7 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D, Sir John Hawkins Volume 7 of The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, Samuel Johnson |
| Authors | Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins |
| Publisher | J. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Oct 2005 |
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