The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published. The Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century, During which He Flourished. In Two Volumes, 1권Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516페이지 |
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... hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occafion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : — " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
... hope for the countenance of that venerable Gentleman to this Work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occafion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : — " Dear Sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
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... Hope , Dr. confulted on Johnfon's illness , ii . 482 . Horace , Johnfon's tranflations from , i . 19 . criticism on a paffage in that Latin poet , ii . 86 . Horne , Reverend Dr. ii . 25 , 583 . Harvey , Hon . Thomas , i . 291 . Harvey ...
... Hope , Dr. confulted on Johnfon's illness , ii . 482 . Horace , Johnfon's tranflations from , i . 19 . criticism on a paffage in that Latin poet , ii . 86 . Horne , Reverend Dr. ii . 25 , 583 . Harvey , Hon . Thomas , i . 291 . Harvey ...
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... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind , such as foon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind , such as foon escape the memory , and are transmitted by tradition . We know how ...
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... hope . " This is fo beautifully imagined , that I would not fupprefs it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a fuppofed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . C 2 hurt 1 hurt his vifual nerves fo much , that he did THE ...
... hope . " This is fo beautifully imagined , that I would not fupprefs it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a fuppofed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction . C 2 hurt 1 hurt his vifual nerves fo much , that he did THE ...
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... hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray GOD may be very remote . now , therefore , fee that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my mind ...
... hope for out of my father's effects , previous to the death of my mother ; an event which I pray GOD may be very remote . now , therefore , fee that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my mind ...
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139 페이지 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
294 페이지 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
140 페이지 - Is not a Patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
140 페이지 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind ; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it ; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it ; till I am known, and do not want it.
223 페이지 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
241 페이지 - Madam, I am now become a convert to your way of thinking. I am convinced that all mankind are upon an equal footing ; and to give you an unquestionable proof, Madam, that I am in earnest, here is a very sensible, civil, well-behaved fellow-citizen, your footman ; I desire that he may be allowed to sit down and dine with us.
36 페이지 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
248 페이지 - Sir, it is owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius and learning ought to do from a principle of duty, when it is suited to their congregations; a practice, for which they will be praised by men of sense.
289 페이지 - His Majesty having observed to him that he supposed he must have read a great deal ; Johnson answered, that he thought more than he read ; that he had read a great deal in the early part of his life, but having fallen into ill health, he had not been able to read much, compared with others : for instance, he said he had not read much, compared with Dr. Warburton.
255 페이지 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.