The Life of Samuel Johnson: 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 ...T. Cadell, 1822 |
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... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " This explanation appears to me satisfactory . It is however , to be observed , that the story told by Johnson does ...
... natural to suppose that he told his story in his own way ; and it is certain that he was not " a very sturdy moralist . " This explanation appears to me satisfactory . It is however , to be observed , that the story told by Johnson does ...
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... nature can do for man . could you learn , Sir ? What can what they themselves have seen ? invisible they can tell nothing . Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other ...
... nature can do for man . could you learn , Sir ? What can what they themselves have seen ? invisible they can tell nothing . Otaheité and New Zealand are not in a state of pure nature ; for it is plain they broke off from some other ...
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... nature . Power , in what- ever hands it is placed , will be sometimes improperly exerted ; yet courts of law must judge , though they will sometimes judge amiss . A father must instruct his children , though he himself may often want ...
... nature . Power , in what- ever hands it is placed , will be sometimes improperly exerted ; yet courts of law must judge , though they will sometimes judge amiss . A father must instruct his children , though he himself may often want ...
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... natural history . " His book is indeed an excellent performance , though in some instances he appears to have trusted too much to Buffon , who , with all his theo- retical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence , I suspect had little ...
... natural history . " His book is indeed an excellent performance , though in some instances he appears to have trusted too much to Buffon , who , with all his theo- retical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence , I suspect had little ...
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... nature , without taking any leave . It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habitation , and as many conveniences . He has got five - and - twenty guineas by translating Sir Joshua's Dis- courses into Italian , and Mr ...
... nature , without taking any leave . It is well if he finds in any other place as good an habitation , and as many conveniences . He has got five - and - twenty guineas by translating Sir Joshua's Dis- courses into Italian , and Mr ...
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66 DEAR SIR acquaintance admirable affectionate afterwards appeared Ashbourne asked Auchinleck authour Beauclerk believe Bishop booksellers character Cibber consider conversation Court of Session death Dilly dined dinner Dodd drink Edinburgh edition English favour Garrick gentleman give Goldsmith happy hear heard Hebrides honour hope House of Lords Hugh Blair humble servant humour JAMES BOSWELL John kindness lady Langton late learned letter liberty Lichfield lived London Lord Lord Bathurst Lord Monboddo Lordship Lucy Porter Madam MALONE mentioned mind never obliged observed once opinion Percy perhaps pleased pleasure poem Poets Pope praise publick recollect respect Reverend SAMUEL JOHNSON Scotland sermons shewed Sir Joshua Reynolds Streatham suppose sure talked Taylor tell thing thought Thrale tion told travels truth Whig Wilkes wine wish word write wrote
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180 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.
304 페이지 - Sir, the life of a parson, of a conscientious clergyman, is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have Chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls. No, Sir, I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.
69 페이지 - You will allow his Apology to be well done." JOHNSON: "Very well done, to be sure, Sir. That book is a striking proof of the justice of Pope's remark: "Each might his several province well command, Would all but stoop to what they understand.
221 페이지 - To clear this doubt, to know the world by sight, To find if books, or swains, report it right, (For yet by swains alone the world he knew, Whose feet came wandering o'er the nightly dew...
412 페이지 - If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
39 페이지 - Fielding's Amelia was the most pleasing heroine of all the romances, (he said,) but that vile broken nose never cured, ruined the sale of perhaps the only book, which being printed off [published] betimes one morning, a new edition was called for before night.
356 페이지 - Are these thy views? proceed, illustrious youth, And virtue guard thee to the throne of Truth! Yet should thy soul indulge the...
347 페이지 - He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
256 페이지 - His nature is too noble for the world : He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for his power to thunder. His heart's his mouth : What his breast forges, that his tongue must vent ; And, being angry, does forget that ever He heard the name of death.
30 페이지 - The Critical Reviewers, I believe, often review without reading the books through ; but lay hold of a topick, and write chiefly from their own minds. The Monthly Reviewers are duller men, and are glad to read the books through.