The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 1권John Murray, Albermarle-Street, 1831 |
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... formed the centre , and of which his biographer is the historian . But though every year thus adds something to the interest and instruction which this work affords , something is , on the other hand , deducted from the amusement which ...
... formed the centre , and of which his biographer is the historian . But though every year thus adds something to the interest and instruction which this work affords , something is , on the other hand , deducted from the amusement which ...
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... formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why " out of the abundance of the heart " should I xlii MR ...
... formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why " out of the abundance of the heart " should I xlii MR ...
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... formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes , though its appearance was little different from that of the other . There is amongst Prayers his prayers , one inscribed " When my EYE was ...
... formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes , though its appearance was little different from that of the other . There is amongst Prayers his prayers , one inscribed " When my EYE was ...
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... writes , in 1764 , that " from almost the earliest time that he could remember , he had been forming schemes for a better life . " Pr . and Med . p . 57 . -ED . ] P. 14 . Mayest thou , O God , enable 1729. - ETAT . 20 , 39.
... writes , in 1764 , that " from almost the earliest time that he could remember , he had been forming schemes for a better life . " Pr . and Med . p . 57 . -ED . ] P. 14 . Mayest thou , O God , enable 1729. - ETAT . 20 , 39.
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... formed his judgement of others , we may be abso- lutely certain , both from his writings and his con- versation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith ' , than whom few were better judges on this subject , once observed ...
... formed his judgement of others , we may be abso- lutely certain , both from his writings and his con- versation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith ' , than whom few were better judges on this subject , once observed ...
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250 페이지 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
428 페이지 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
338 페이지 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned'.
249 페이지 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre, that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending, but I found my attendance so little encouraged that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
253 페이지 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
379 페이지 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
461 페이지 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?
50 페이지 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great, and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
485 페이지 - As the vessel put out to sea, I kept my eyes upon him for a considerable time, while he remained rolling his majestic frame in his usual manner ; and at last I perceived him walk back into the town, and he disappeared.
118 페이지 - Mr. Hogarth, among the variety of kindnesses shown to me when I was too young to have a proper sense of them, was used to be very earnest that I should obtain the acquaintance, and if possible, the friendship of Dr. Johnson; whose conversation was, to the talk of other men, like Titian's painting compared...