The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Հատոր 2Alexander Chalmers 1812 |
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... mankind , she is every day mortified with the defeat of her schemes and the disappointment of her hopes . With regard to vice and virtue she seems a kind of neutral being . She has no crime but luxury , nor any virtue but chastity ; she ...
... mankind , she is every day mortified with the defeat of her schemes and the disappointment of her hopes . With regard to vice and virtue she seems a kind of neutral being . She has no crime but luxury , nor any virtue but chastity ; she ...
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... mankind are struggling round us , and acquaint our- selves with the terribiles visu forme , the various shapes of misery , which make havock of terrestrial happiness , range all corners almost without restraint , trample down our hopes ...
... mankind are struggling round us , and acquaint our- selves with the terribiles visu forme , the various shapes of misery , which make havock of terrestrial happiness , range all corners almost without restraint , trample down our hopes ...
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... mankind : some who seem to rush upon poverty , with the same eagerness with which others avoid it ; who see their revenues hourly lessened , and the estates which they inherit from their ancestors mouldering away , without resolution to ...
... mankind : some who seem to rush upon poverty , with the same eagerness with which others avoid it ; who see their revenues hourly lessened , and the estates which they inherit from their ancestors mouldering away , without resolution to ...
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... mankind at defiance by hourly irritation , and who live but to infuse malignity and multiply enemies , have no hopes to foster , no designs to promote , nor any expectations of attaining power by insolence , or of climbing to greatness ...
... mankind at defiance by hourly irritation , and who live but to infuse malignity and multiply enemies , have no hopes to foster , no designs to promote , nor any expectations of attaining power by insolence , or of climbing to greatness ...
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... mankind is so much enraged , that it is never quietly endured , except in those who can reward the patience which they exact ; and insolence is generally surrounded only by such whose baseness inclines them to think nothing ...
... mankind is so much enraged , that it is never quietly endured , except in those who can reward the patience which they exact ; and insolence is generally surrounded only by such whose baseness inclines them to think nothing ...
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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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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.