The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / The Rambler, Volume II

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who could king a

his friendship

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exempt him from the lot of man, or incline us much to wonder that he should die. What is meant by "judge of nature," is not easy to say. Nature is not the object of human judgment; for it is vain to judge where we cannot alter. If by nat

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ected with knaves in state, though knaves is a word rather too ludicrous and light; but the mention of sanctified pride will not lead the

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first bestowed on Dorset by Pope[153]

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ly to be avoided; and in shorter they may be indulged, because the train of the composition may naturally involve them, or the scantiness of the subject allow litt

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rved to be kept separate from so poor a commendation as care of his ease. I wish our poets would attend a little more accurately to the use of the word sacred, which surely should never be applied in a serious composition, but where some reference

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peerage; they might happen to any other man whose ancestors

aph be worthy either of the