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Page xiii
... joy of a free and vigor- " ous use of his limbs . When he walked , it was " like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when " he rode , he had no command or direction of his " horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . " 66 ❝rate ...
... joy of a free and vigor- " ous use of his limbs . When he walked , it was " like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when " he rode , he had no command or direction of his " horse , but was carried as if in a balloon . " 66 ❝rate ...
Page xcvii
... joy or sorrow . Of the agents we have no care ; we consider not what " they are doing , nor what they are suffering- " we wish only to know what they have to say . " It is unaffecting elegance , and chill philosophy . " Johnson's two ...
... joy or sorrow . Of the agents we have no care ; we consider not what " they are doing , nor what they are suffering- " we wish only to know what they have to say . " It is unaffecting elegance , and chill philosophy . " Johnson's two ...
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... joy , Increase his riches , and his peace destroy , Now fears in dire vicissitude invade , The rustling brake alarms , and quiv'ring shade , Nor light nor darkness bring his pain relief , One shews the plunder , and one hides the thief ...
... joy , Increase his riches , and his peace destroy , Now fears in dire vicissitude invade , The rustling brake alarms , and quiv'ring shade , Nor light nor darkness bring his pain relief , One shews the plunder , and one hides the thief ...
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... joys are causeless , or whose griefs are vain , Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind , Renew'd at ev'ry glance on human kind ; How just that scorn ere yet thy voice declare , Search ev'ry state , and canvass ev'ry pray❜r ...
... joys are causeless , or whose griefs are vain , Such was the scorn that fill'd the sage's mind , Renew'd at ev'ry glance on human kind ; How just that scorn ere yet thy voice declare , Search ev'ry state , and canvass ev'ry pray❜r ...
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... joys to him pacific sceptres yield , War sounds the trump , he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their pow'rs combine , And one capitulate , and one resign ; Peace courts his hand , but spreads her charmsin vain ; " Think ...
... joys to him pacific sceptres yield , War sounds the trump , he rushes to the field ; Behold surrounding kings their pow'rs combine , And one capitulate , and one resign ; Peace courts his hand , but spreads her charmsin vain ; " Think ...
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Page xxxi - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
Page xxxii - I waited in your outward rooms or was repulsed from your door, during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it at last to the verge of publication without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before.
Page 20 - Proceed, illustrious youth, And Virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth ! Yet should thy soul indulge the gen'rous heat Till captive Science yields her last retreat; Should Reason guide thee with her brightest ray, And pour on misty doubt resistless day; Should no false kindness lure to loose delight, Nor praise relax, nor difficulty fright; Should tempting Novelty thy cell refrain, And Sloth effuse her opiate fumes in vain; Should Beauty blunt on fops her fatal dart, Nor claim the triumph of a...
Page 15 - LET observation, with extensive view, Survey mankind, from China to Peru ; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded life...
Page xxxiv - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
Page 23 - ... prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy; In vain their gifts the bounteous seasons pour, The fruit autumnal, and the vernal flow'r...
Page lix - MACPHERSON, — I received your foolish and impudent letter. Any violence offered me I shall do my best to repel; and what I cannot do for myself, the law shall do for me. I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
Page 21 - The march begins, in military state, And nations on his eye suspended wait; Stern Famine guards the solitary coast, And Winter barricades the realms of Frost; He comes...
Page xlix - During the whole of this interview, Johnson talked to his Majesty with profound respect, but still in his firm manly manner, with a sonorous voice, and never in that subdued tone which is commonly used at the levee and in the drawing room.
Page 21 - The ravish'd standard, and the captive foe, The senate's thanks, the gazette's pompous tale, With force resistless o'er the brave prevail. Such bribes the rapid Greek o'er Asia whirl'd, For...