The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 2Alexander Chalmers 1812 |
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... seems resolved that secret shall perish with her , as some alchymists have obsti- nately suppressed the art of transmuting metals . I once ventured to lay my fingers on her book of receipts , which she left upon the table , having intel ...
... seems resolved that secret shall perish with her , as some alchymists have obsti- nately suppressed the art of transmuting metals . I once ventured to lay my fingers on her book of receipts , which she left upon the table , having intel ...
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... seems a kind of neutral being . She has no crime but luxury , nor any virtue but chastity ; she has no desire to be praised but for her cookery ; nor wishes any ill to the rest of mankind , but that whenever they aspire to a feast ...
... seems a kind of neutral being . She has no crime but luxury , nor any virtue but chastity ; she has no desire to be praised but for her cookery ; nor wishes any ill to the rest of mankind , but that whenever they aspire to a feast ...
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... seems to justify the efficacy of this procedure ; for one of the first comforts which one neighbour administers to another , is a relation of the like infelicity , combined with circumstances of greater bitterness THE RAMBLER . [ No. 52 .
... seems to justify the efficacy of this procedure ; for one of the first comforts which one neighbour administers to another , is a relation of the like infelicity , combined with circumstances of greater bitterness THE RAMBLER . [ No. 52 .
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... seems indeed the weakest of all others , and is , perhaps , never properly applied , but in cases where there is no place for reflections of more speedy and pleasing efficacy . But even from such calamities life is by no means free ; a ...
... seems indeed the weakest of all others , and is , perhaps , never properly applied , but in cases where there is no place for reflections of more speedy and pleasing efficacy . But even from such calamities life is by no means free ; a ...
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... seems not to be wanting a general conviction ; we hear on every side the noise of trade , and see the streets thronged with number- less multitudes , whose faces are clouded with anxi- ety , and whose steps are hurried by precipitation ...
... seems not to be wanting a general conviction ; we hear on every side the noise of trade , and see the streets thronged with number- less multitudes , whose faces are clouded with anxi- ety , and whose steps are hurried by precipitation ...
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Page 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.
Page 229 - Shoots far into the bosom of dim Night A glimmering dawn. Here Nature first begins Her farthest verge, and Chaos to retire...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 172 - Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do unto them ; for this is the law and the prophets.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.