IdlerT. and J. Allman, 1823 |
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... Idleness 10. Political credulity 11. Discourses on the weather 12. Marriages , why advertised 13. The imaginary housewife 14. Robbery of time • 15. Treacle's complaint of his wife 16. Drugget's retirement 17. Expedients of Idlers . 18 ...
... Idleness 10. Political credulity 11. Discourses on the weather 12. Marriages , why advertised 13. The imaginary housewife 14. Robbery of time • 15. Treacle's complaint of his wife 16. Drugget's retirement 17. Expedients of Idlers . 18 ...
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... idleness 49. Marvel's journey 50. Marvel paralleled • 51. Domestic greatness unattainable 52. Self - denial necessary 53. Mischiefs of good company 54. Mrs. Savecharge's complaint 55. Author's mortifications 56. Virtuosos whimsical ...
... idleness 49. Marvel's journey 50. Marvel paralleled • 51. Domestic greatness unattainable 52. Self - denial necessary 53. Mischiefs of good company 54. Mrs. Savecharge's complaint 55. Author's mortifications 56. Virtuosos whimsical ...
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... idleness must be not only the general , but the peculiar cha- racteristic of man ; and , perhaps , man is the only being that can properly be called idle , that does by others what he might do himself , or sacrifices duty or pleasure to ...
... idleness must be not only the general , but the peculiar cha- racteristic of man ; and , perhaps , man is the only being that can properly be called idle , that does by others what he might do himself , or sacrifices duty or pleasure to ...
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... idleness which the Idler only can conceive . These miseries I have often felt and often bewailed . I know by experience how welcome is every avocation that summons the thoughts to a new image ; and how much languor and lassitude are ...
... idleness which the Idler only can conceive . These miseries I have often felt and often bewailed . I know by experience how welcome is every avocation that summons the thoughts to a new image ; and how much languor and lassitude are ...
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... idleness as the same ; and so desire you will now and then , while you profess your- self of our fraternity , take some notice of me , and others in my situation , who think they have a right to your assistance ; or relinquish the name ...
... idleness as the same ; and so desire you will now and then , while you profess your- self of our fraternity , take some notice of me , and others in my situation , who think they have a right to your assistance ; or relinquish the name ...
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admired amusement appear art of memory authors Bassora beauty censure common commonly considered critic curiosity danger delight desire diligence dreaded Drugget easily easy elegance endeavour enemies English equal evil expected eyes favour fortune friends genius give gout hand happiness honour hope hour Hudibras human idleness Idler Iliad imagination innu inquiry JOSEPH WARTON knowledge labour lady Lapland learned lence less live look Louisbourg mankind marriage memory ment mind Minorca misery morning nation nature necessary neral ness never Newmarket night observed once opinion pain passed passions perhaps Peterhouse pleased pleasure poetry praise produce quired racters readers reason resolved ressentie rich SATURDAY seldom shew sometimes soon Sophron suffered suppose sure talk tell thing THOMAS WARTON thought tion told truth uncon virtue vulture weary wife wish wonder write XXXIII
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Side 258 - 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...
Side 268 - The Italian, attends only to the invariable, the great and general ; ideas which are fixed and inherent in universal nature; the Dutch, on the contrary, to literal truth and a minute exactness in the detail, as I may say, of nature modified by accident. The attention to these petty peculiarities is the very cause of this naturalness so much admired in the Dutch pictures, which, if we suppose it to be a beauty, is certainly...
Side 254 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Side 254 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Side 327 - Young man," said Omar," it is of little use to form plans of life. When I took my first survey of the world, in my twentieth year, having considered the various conditions of mankind, in the hour of solitude I said thus to myself, leaning against a cedar, which spread its branches over my head : " Seventy years are allowed to man ; I have yet fifty remaining.
Side 328 - The first part of my ensuing time was to be spent in search of knowledge; and I know not how I was diverted from my design. I had no visible impediments without, nor any ungovernable passions within.
Side ii - Many of these excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter. Mr. Langton remembers Johnson, when on a visit at Oxford', asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour, he exclaimed,
Side 251 - ... middle to have been on higher ground, or the figures at the extremities stooping or lying, which would not only have formed the group into the shape of a pyramid, but likewise contrasted the standing figures. Indeed...
Side 55 - To be idle and to be poor, have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavours, with his utmost care, to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Side 269 - I answer, that, in consequence of having seen many, the power is acquired, even without seeking after it, of distinguishing between accidental blemishes and excrescences which are continually varying the surface of Nature's works, and the invariable general form which Nature most frequently produces, and always seems to intend in her productions.