Consolation in the Face of Death

by Samuel Johnson

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, perception and wit that made Johnson the leading man of letters of his day, and one of the finest essayists in the English language.… (more)

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Indeholder "The State of Affairs in Lilliput", "On Gay's Epitaph", "A Compleat Vindication of the Licensers of the Stage", "An Essay on Epitaphs", "The Vision of Theodore, the Hermit of Teneriffe", "On Theory and Practice", "The Benefits of Human Society", "The Role of the Scholar", "Observations on the present State of Affairs (1736)", "Of the Duty of a Journalist", "The Vultures' View of Man", "Debtors' Prisons (1)", "Consolation in the Face of Death", "The Nature of a Critic", "European Oppression in America".

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Consolation in the Face of Death

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1944 (copyright)

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"As one who walks through solemn woods at night,
When every star is blotted out with cloud,
And storm winds moan with rising passion loud,
Holds high abouve his head a torch to light
The path he takes, not knowing how to fight
The cursed blackness back except endued
With radiance from his torch of pine, - else bowed
In darkness and defeat his manly might, -
So I above the grave of my sweet dead
Hold high this torch of God, to light the gloom
And pour in sunshine, while with praising breath
I track the footsteps of my loved one fled
To God's dear land and fair beyond the tomb:
And this my torch, "There shall be no more death!""
- Bishop Quayle

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I dedicate this volume to the
largest household in the world,
THE HOUSEHOLD OF THE SORROWING

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"Jesus Himself drew near and went with them." Luke 24:15

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Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are. In his moving essay, Samuel Johnson offers wise words on confronting grief at the loss of a loved one. The other pieces here, ranging from art to marriage to morality, demonstrate the brilliance, perception and wit that made Johnson the leading man of letters of his day, and one of the finest essayists in the English language.

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