The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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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 occasion 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 occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 : - Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it will find you ...
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... hope to see in about a fortnight . Ib . p . 208. In the letter to Mr. Chambers , the last two paragraphs but one are transposed .. Ib . p . 209. 1. 14. I have not been able yet to procure . Ib . P. 211. 1. 16. I shall be extremely glad ...
... hope to see in about a fortnight . Ib . p . 208. In the letter to Mr. Chambers , the last two paragraphs but one are transposed .. Ib . p . 209. 1. 14. I have not been able yet to procure . Ib . P. 211. 1. 16. I shall be extremely glad ...
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... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
... hope for impartiality , but must expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which give excellence to biography are of a vola- tile and evanescent kind , such as soon escape the memory , and are rarely transmitted by tradition . We ...
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... hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction * . BOSWELL . * Johnson always evinced mortification at his ...
... hope . " This is so beautifully imagined , that I would not suppress it . But , like many other theories , it is deduced from a supposed fact , which is , indeed , a fiction * . BOSWELL . * Johnson always evinced mortification at his ...
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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 . I now , therefore , see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my ...
... 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 . I now , therefore , see that I must make my own fortune . Meanwhile , let me take care that the powers of my ...
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199 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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
362 페이지 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
167 페이지 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
228 페이지 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
198 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.
198 페이지 - World, that two papers, in which my 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.
46 페이지 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope, that at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " 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.
147 페이지 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
307 페이지 - But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky, for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland...
xv 페이지 - Marmor Norfolciense ; or, an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne, in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus...