The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Հատոր 2Alexander Chalmers 1812 |
From inside the book
Արդյունքներ 28–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 1
... appear to think no form of human life unworthy of your 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 ...
... appear to think no form of human life unworthy of your 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 ...
Էջ 17
... appears evident that frugality is necessary even to complete the pleasure of expense ; for it may be generally remarked of those who squander what they know their fortune not sufficient to allow , that in their most jovial expense ...
... appears evident that frugality is necessary even to complete the pleasure of expense ; for it may be generally remarked of those who squander what they know their fortune not sufficient to allow , that in their most jovial expense ...
Էջ 61
... appears to think of so great a value , or so difficult attainment . But my curiosity has been most engaged by the re- eital of his own adventures and achievements . I have No. 61. ] THE RAMBLER . 61 A Londoner's Visit to the Country.
... appears to think of so great a value , or so difficult attainment . But my curiosity has been most engaged by the re- eital of his own adventures and achievements . I have No. 61. ] THE RAMBLER . 61 A Londoner's Visit to the Country.
Էջ 73
... appears to have desisted from the task of transmutation , from conviction of its impossibility , but from weariness of toil , or impatience of delay , a broken body , or ex- hausted fortune . Irresolution and mutability are often the ...
... appears to have desisted from the task of transmutation , from conviction of its impossibility , but from weariness of toil , or impatience of delay , a broken body , or ex- hausted fortune . Irresolution and mutability are often the ...
Էջ 92
... appears ! And with what hope can we endeavour to persuade the ladies , that the time spent at the toilet is lost in ... appear . ing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred . No. LXVII . TUESDAY ...
... appears ! And with what hope can we endeavour to persuade the ladies , that the time spent at the toilet is lost in ... appear . ing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred . No. LXVII . TUESDAY ...
Այլ խմբագրություններ - View all
Common terms and phrases
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
Սիրված հատվածներ
Էջ 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.
Էջ 229 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 172 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.