Samuel Johnson Quotes about Darkness

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Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Samuel Johnson

Eye, Darkness, Degrees

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom.

Samuel Johnson

Night, Ideas, Darkness

In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 90 (16 October 1769)

To tell of disappointment and misery, to thicken the darkness of futurity, and perplex the labyrinth of uncertainty, has been always a delicious employment of the poets

Samuel Johnson

Disappointment, Darkness, Labyrinth

Samuel Johnson (2009). “The Lives of the Poets: A Selection”, p.422, OUP Oxford

False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken by the sun, will be pleased to see a fainter orb arise on the horizon, that may rescue him from total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre.

Samuel Johnson

Ignorance, Darkness, Horizon

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.148