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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesacquaintance admiration amusements ance appearance Aristotle attention beauty censure common considered contempt conversation curiosity danger daugh delight desire dignity dili discover easily elegance eminent endeavour envy equally excellence expected eyes fame fancy father favour fear flattered folly fortune frequently gayety genius give gratify happiness heart honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination inclined indulgence inquiry Johnson justly kind knowledge labour ladies learning lence less live look mankind marriage ment mind miscarriages misery nature necessary nerally ness never nity observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain Paradise Lost passed passions perhaps perpetual pleased pleasure portunity praise quire racter RAMBLER reason received regard rence reproach rest Samuel Johnson scarcely seldom sentiments sion sometimes soon suffer surely tain thing thought Thrasybulus tion truth tural vanity vigour Virgil virtue wish writer Popular passagesPage xv - Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help ? 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. Page xv - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. Page 217 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. Page 110 - By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire. We entangle ourselves in business, immerge ourselves in luxury, and rove through the labyrinths of inconstancy, till the darkness of old age begins to invade us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. Page 103 - We know how few can portray a living acquaintance, except by his most prominent and observable particularities, and the grosser features of his mind; and it may be easily imagined how much of this little knowledge may be lost in imparting it, and how soon a succession of copies will lose all resemblance of the original. Page 110 - 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 bramble?, the glimmer of a taper. Page 89 - I was surprised, after the civilities of my first reception, to find, instead of the leisure and tranquillity, which a rural life always promises, and, if well conducted, might always afford, a confused wildness of care, and a tumultuous hurry of diligence, by which every face was clouded, and every motion agitated. Page xiv - Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academic bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. Page xii - ... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materials were collected, whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his... Page 219 - So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In all her functions weary of herself, My race of glory run, and race of shame, And I shall shortly be with them that rest. Bibliographic information
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