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Carey put down her sewing, leaned her head back against the crimson rambler, and laughed till the welkin rang. "I suppose you think I'm crazy?" Cousin Ann remarked after a moment's pause. "I don't know, Cousin Ann," said Mrs. Carey, taking up her work again. "Whatever it is, you can't help it! If you'll give up trying to understand my point of view, I won't meddle with yours!"
In The Rambler, No. 78, he says: 'I believe men may be generally observed to grow less tender as they advance in age. He passed over his own Life of Savage. 'When I was a young fellow, I wanted to write the Life of Dryden' Ante, iii. 71. See ante, p. 117.
If you came nearer, you found how the garden rioted in colour under the touch of early summer, from the crimson rambler round the eastern bay window to the "Bonfire" salvia blazing in masses on the lawn; but from the paddocks all that could be seen was the mass of green, and the mellow red of the roof glimpsing through.
The truth is, he knew nothing of the danger we were in but, fearless and unconcerned, might have said, in the words which he has chosen for the motto to his Rambler, 'Quo me cunque rapit tempestas, deferor hospes.
Some time indeed was still to elapse before we can say that Johnson was firmly seated on the throne; but the Dictionary and the Rambler had given him a position not altogether easy to appreciate, now that the Dictionary has been superseded and the Rambler gone out of fashion. His name was the highest at this time in the ranks of pure literature.
In general we were hard upon the moderns. The author of the "Rambler" was only tolerated in Boswell's Life of him; and it was as much as any one could do to edge in a word for Junius. Lamb could not bear Gil Blas: this was a fault. I remember the greatest triumph I ever had was in persuading him, after some years' difficulty, that Fielding was better than Smollett.
Here is a French magazine, in which you will find a very pretty oriental tale; translate that, and send it to your printer. Mr. Murphy having read the tale, was highly pleased with it, and followed Foote's advice. When he returned to town, this tale was pointed out to him in The Rambler, from whence it had been translated into the French magazine. Mr.
I was much vexed that I should have been guilty of such a riot, and afraid of a reproof from Dr. Johnson. I thought it very inconsistent with that conduct which I ought to maintain, while the companion of the Rambler. About one he came into my room, and accosted me, 'What, drunk yet? His tone of voice was not that of severe upbraiding; so I was relieved a little.
If of Dryden's fire the blaze is brighter, of Pope's the heat is more regular and constant. Dryden often surpasses expectation, and Pope never falls below it. Dryden is read with frequent astonishment, and Pope with perpetual delight." As a rule, Johnson's prose is too abstract and general, and it awakens too few images. This is a characteristic failing of his essays in The Rambler and The Idler.
Quite different is the habit of the towhee, which announces his presence by his loud, explosive trill all too brief or his complaining "chewing." Sometimes the rambler and bird gazer meets with other than avian "specimens" in his excursions.
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