The Rambler. ...W. Gordon, C. Wright, and the other booksellers, 1750 |
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... ment was wearied with the perplexity of being forced upon choice , where there was no motive to prefer- ence ; and it was found convenient that fome eafy method of introduction fhould be eftablished , which , if it wanted the allurement ...
... ment was wearied with the perplexity of being forced upon choice , where there was no motive to prefer- ence ; and it was found convenient that fome eafy method of introduction fhould be eftablished , which , if it wanted the allurement ...
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... ment of their hours , are obliged to find themselves bufinefs or diverfion , and having nothing within that can entertain or employ them , are compelled to try all the arts of deftroying time . The numberlefs expedients practifed by ...
... ment of their hours , are obliged to find themselves bufinefs or diverfion , and having nothing within that can entertain or employ them , are compelled to try all the arts of deftroying time . The numberlefs expedients practifed by ...
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... ment ment and fierce vociferations , in furious menaces and licentious 56 Ne II . The RAMBLER .
... ment ment and fierce vociferations , in furious menaces and licentious 56 Ne II . The RAMBLER .
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Samuel Johnson. ment and fierce vociferations , in furious menaces and licentious reproaches . Their rage , indeed , for the most part , fumes away in outcries of injury , and protestations of vengeance , and feldom pro- ceeds to actual ...
Samuel Johnson. ment and fierce vociferations , in furious menaces and licentious reproaches . Their rage , indeed , for the most part , fumes away in outcries of injury , and protestations of vengeance , and feldom pro- ceeds to actual ...
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... ment equal to its guilt . Nothing is more despicable or more miserable than the old age of a paffionate man . When the vigour of youth fails him , and his amusements pall with frequent repetition , his occafional rage finks by decay of ...
... ment equal to its guilt . Nothing is more despicable or more miserable than the old age of a paffionate man . When the vigour of youth fails him , and his amusements pall with frequent repetition , his occafional rage finks by decay of ...
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Página 13 - Yet there is a certain race of men, that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius ; who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving ignorance and envy the first notice of a prey.
Página 237 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched ; this is the condition of all below the stars ; and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Página 19 - In the romances formerly written, every transaction and sentiment was so remote from all that passes among men, that the reader was in very little danger of making any applications to himself...
Página 18 - They are engaged in portraits of which every one knows the original, and can detect any deviation from exactness of resemblance. Other writings are safe, except from the malice of learning, but these are in danger from every common reader; as the slipper ill executed was censured by a shoemaker who happened to stop in his way at the Venus of Apelles.
Página 17 - The works of fiction with which the present generation seems more particularly delighted are such as exhibit life in its true state, diversified only by accidents that daily happen in the world, and influenced by passions and qualities which are really to be found in conversing with mankind.
Página 18 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Página 19 - For this reason these familiar histories may perhaps be made of greater use than the solemnities of professed morality, and convey the knowledge of vice and virtue with more efficacy than axioms and definitions.
Página 259 - ... never arrives. He lies down delighted with the thoughts of to-morrow, pleases his ambition with the fame he shall acquire, or his benevolence with the good he shall confer. But in the night the skies...
Página 238 - Providence diffused such innumerable objects of delight but that all might rejoice in the privilege of existence, and be filled with gratitude to the beneficent author of it? Thus to enjoy the blessings he has sent is virtue and obedience; and to reject them merely as means of pleasure is pitiable ignorance or absurd perverseness.
Página 22 - In narratives where historical veracity has no place, I cannot discover why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit, we shall never imitate, but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...