The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Macmillan and Company, 1922 |
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... asked me to write such a thing as that for him , than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon , or to do any thing else that denoted his im- becility . I as much believe that he wrote it , as if I had seen him do it . Sir , had ...
... asked me to write such a thing as that for him , than he would have asked me to feed him with a spoon , or to do any thing else that denoted his im- becility . I as much believe that he wrote it , as if I had seen him do it . Sir , had ...
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... asked me to dine with him on Easter - day . I never supposed that he had a dinner at his house ; for I had not then heard of any one of his friends having been entertained at his table . He told me , “ I generally have a meat - pie on ...
... asked me to dine with him on Easter - day . I never supposed that he had a dinner at his house ; for I had not then heard of any one of his friends having been entertained at his table . He told me , “ I generally have a meat - pie on ...
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... asked Fitzherbert to go with him , but told him , ' You must find somebody to bring you back : I can only carry you there . ' Fitzherbert did not much like this arrangement . He , however , consented , observ- ing sarcastically , It ...
... asked Fitzherbert to go with him , but told him , ' You must find somebody to bring you back : I can only carry you there . ' Fitzherbert did not much like this arrangement . He , however , consented , observ- ing sarcastically , It ...
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... asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it . JOHN- SON : " I have looked into it . " " What , " said Elphinston , " have you not read it through ? " Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading ...
... asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it . JOHN- SON : " I have looked into it . " " What , " said Elphinston , " have you not read it through ? " Johnson , offended at being thus pressed , and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading ...
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... asked , who should be honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested Pope . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , as Pope was a Roman Catholic , I would not have his to be first . I think Milton's rather should have the ...
... asked , who should be honoured by having his monument first erected there . Somebody suggested Pope . JOHNSON : " Why , Sir , as Pope was a Roman Catholic , I would not have his to be first . I think Milton's rather should have the ...
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366 페이지 - To abstract the mind from all local emotion would be impossible, if it were endeavoured, and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.
96 페이지 - There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
370 페이지 - Why, sir, you find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life ; for there is in London all that life can afford.
112 페이지 - I once wrote for a magazine : I made a calculation, that if I should write but a page a day, at the same rate, I should, in ten years, write nine volumes in folio, of an ordinary size and print.
352 페이지 - Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.
128 페이지 - Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
27 페이지 - Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go And view the ocean leaning on the sky : From thence our rolling neighbours we shall know And on the lunar world securely pry.
204 페이지 - I sell here, Sir, what all the " world desires to have, — POWER' He had about seven
24 페이지 - Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say, that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian tale.
300 페이지 - ALMIGHTY God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men ; Grant unto thy people, that they may love the thing which thou commandest, and desire that which thou dost promise ; that so, among the sundry and manifold changes of the world, our hearts may surely there be fixed, where true joys are to be found ; through Jesus Christ our Lord.