Will Johnson
Will Johnson
forests
Corneille is to Shakespeare as a clipped hedge is to a forest.
scene comic produce
In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.
fabric injury poet
The stream of Time, which is continually washing the dissoluble fabrics of other poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Shakespeare.
retirement solitude mind
The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.
past mind sorrow
Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.
pain grieving evil
To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its cause is morbid, and should be shaken off as an attack of melancholy, as the forerunner of a greater evil than poverty or pain.
style mind benefits
Whatever professes to benefit by pleasing must please at once. The pleasures of the mind imply something sudden and unexpected; that which elevates must always surprise.
pleasure subordination governing
I am a friend to subordination, as most conducive to the happiness of society. There is a reciprocal pleasure in governing and being governed.
pain useless suspicion
Suspicion is very often a useless pain.
mind taxation sound
The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.
law action virtue
He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.
troublesome
Thought is always troublesome to him who lives without his own approbation.
mind disease obstinate
Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.
failing
A fallible being will fail somewhere.