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Pàgina vii
... OF GAINING OUR OWN ESTEEM The Age of authors OUR PRESENT STATE ONE OF DANGER AND INFELICITY ON THE DUTY OF SELF - EXAMINATION THE HAPPINESS AND VEXATION OF AUTHORS 245 of 256 261 267 THE IDLER . PAGE ✓ THE IDLER'S CHARACTER . XINVITATION.
... OF GAINING OUR OWN ESTEEM The Age of authors OUR PRESENT STATE ONE OF DANGER AND INFELICITY ON THE DUTY OF SELF - EXAMINATION THE HAPPINESS AND VEXATION OF AUTHORS 245 of 256 261 267 THE IDLER . PAGE ✓ THE IDLER'S CHARACTER . XINVITATION.
Pàgina xix
... , and Johnson exercised a lordship in letters which has had no parallel in the present century , though it is possible to trace , even amid the widely changed conditions of modern life , at least a reflection of it in the INTRODUCTION .
... , and Johnson exercised a lordship in letters which has had no parallel in the present century , though it is possible to trace , even amid the widely changed conditions of modern life , at least a reflection of it in the INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina 2
... present moment , and losing itself in schemes of future felicity ; and that we forget the proper use of the time now in our power , to provide for the enjoyment of that which , perhaps , may never be granted us , has been frequently ...
... present moment , and losing itself in schemes of future felicity ; and that we forget the proper use of the time now in our power , to provide for the enjoyment of that which , perhaps , may never be granted us , has been frequently ...
Pàgina 3
... perpetually varying the horizon of his prospects , he must always dis- cover new motives of action , new excitements of fear , and allurements of desire . The end therefore which at present calls forth our efforts THE RAMBLER . 3.
... perpetually varying the horizon of his prospects , he must always dis- cover new motives of action , new excitements of fear , and allurements of desire . The end therefore which at present calls forth our efforts THE RAMBLER . 3.
Pàgina 4
... present purpose ; it frequently happens that , by indulging early the raptures of success , we forget the measures necessary to secure it , and suffer the imagination to riot in the fruition of some possible good , till the time of ...
... present purpose ; it frequently happens that , by indulging early the raptures of success , we forget the measures necessary to secure it , and suffer the imagination to riot in the fruition of some possible good , till the time of ...
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Pàgina xvi - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.
Pàgina 309 - DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...
Pàgina 29 - The gates of hell are open night and day ; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way : But, to return, and view the cheerful skies — In this the task and mighty labour lies.
Pàgina 79 - For not only every man has, in the mighty mass of the world, great numbers in the same condition with himself to whom his mistakes and miscarriages, escapes and expedients, would be of immediate and apparent use; but there is such an uniformity in the state of man, considered apart from adventitious and separable decorations and disguises, that there is scarce any possibility of good or ill but is common to human kind.
Pàgina 77 - LL 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.
Pàgina 192 - OUCH is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we ^ are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust; and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to every other course of life, that its two days of happiness are the first and the last.
Pàgina 335 - TALES AND ESSAYS. EDITED, WITH INTROduction, by Ernest Rhys. 42 VICAR OF WAKEFIELD. BY OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Edited, with Preface, by Ernest Rhys. 43 POLITICAL ORATIONS, FROM WENTWORTH TO Macaulay. Edited, with Introduction, by William Clarke. 44 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY Oliver Wendell Holmes. 45 THE POET AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE. BY OLIVER Wendell Holmes. 46 THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST- TABLE.
Pàgina 80 - But biography has often been allotted to writers, who seem very little acquainted with the nature of their task, or very negligent about the performance.
Pàgina 5 - What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught ; and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered, that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Pàgina 157 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.