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If I stopped awhile, "to plume contemplation's wings, so ruffled and impaired," some of the low realities, some of the impertinent necessities of fashionable life, would tread on my heels.
D'Alembert, one of the first mathematicians of his age, was a wit, a man of gallantry and letters. With us a learned man is absorbed in himself and some particular study, and minds nothing else. There is something ascetic and impracticable in his very constitution, and he answers to the description of the Monk in Spenser From every work he challenged essoin For contemplation's sake.
See ante, i. 49, for Johnson's fondness for the old romances. Boswell, ante, i. 386, implies that Sheridan's pension was partly due to Wedderburne's influence. See ante, i. 386. 'For not imprudent of my loss to come, I saw from Contemplation's quiet cell His feet ascending to another home, Where public praise and envied greatness dwell. He had, however, no misgivings, for he thus ends:
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