The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Adventurer. Philological tractsJ. Buckland [and 40 others], 1787 |
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... ignorance , I condefcended to listen to his terms . He proceeded to inform me of my great felicity in not falling into the hands of an extortioner ; and affured me , that I fhould find him extremely mo- derate in his demands : he was ...
... ignorance , I condefcended to listen to his terms . He proceeded to inform me of my great felicity in not falling into the hands of an extortioner ; and affured me , that I fhould find him extremely mo- derate in his demands : he was ...
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... not immediately determine , that they owed their reputation to dulnefs or bigotry ; but fufpect at least that our ancestors had fome rea- VOL . IX . fons D fons for their opinions , and that our ignorance of N ° 58. THE ADVENTURER . 33.
... not immediately determine , that they owed their reputation to dulnefs or bigotry ; but fufpect at least that our ancestors had fome rea- VOL . IX . fons D fons for their opinions , and that our ignorance of N ° 58. THE ADVENTURER . 33.
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Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. fons for their opinions , and that our ignorance of those reasons makes us differ from them . It often happens , that an author's reputation is endangered in fucceeding times , by that which raised the ...
Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins. fons for their opinions , and that our ignorance of those reasons makes us differ from them . It often happens , that an author's reputation is endangered in fucceeding times , by that which raised the ...
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... ignorance of his fellow - travellers , difguifes himfelf in counterfeited merit , and hears thofe praifes with complacency which his confcience reproaches him for accepting , Every man deceives himfelf , while he thinks he is deceiving ...
... ignorance of his fellow - travellers , difguifes himfelf in counterfeited merit , and hears thofe praifes with complacency which his confcience reproaches him for accepting , Every man deceives himfelf , while he thinks he is deceiving ...
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... ignorance in multitudes , and of wishing to deftroy that reputation which they have no hopes to fhare . It will , I believe , be found invariably true , that learning was never decried by any learned man ; and what credit can be given ...
... ignorance in multitudes , and of wishing to deftroy that reputation which they have no hopes to fhare . It will , I believe , be found invariably true , that learning was never decried by any learned man ; and what credit can be given ...
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Page 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.
Page 289 - I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 245 - His declamations or set speeches are commonly cold and weak, for his power was the power of nature...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.