The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides, 2권H.G. Bohn, 1848 |
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... excellent a composition might not be lost to posterity . He delayed from time to time to give it me ( 1 ) ; till at last , in 1781 , when we were on a visit at Mr. Dilly's , at Southhill in Bedfordshire , he was pleased to dictate it to ...
... excellent a composition might not be lost to posterity . He delayed from time to time to give it me ( 1 ) ; till at last , in 1781 , when we were on a visit at Mr. Dilly's , at Southhill in Bedfordshire , he was pleased to dictate it to ...
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... excellent parts , when we were boys together at the college but , alas ! ' Lost in a convent's solitary gloom ! ' - ( 1 ) There is some excuse for Dr. Ratcliff ( so he spelt his name ) not ordering a copy of the book , for this visit ...
... excellent parts , when we were boys together at the college but , alas ! ' Lost in a convent's solitary gloom ! ' - ( 1 ) There is some excuse for Dr. Ratcliff ( so he spelt his name ) not ordering a copy of the book , for this visit ...
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... excellent library , particularly a valuable collection of books in Northern literature , with which Johnson was often very busy . One day Mr. Wise read to us a dissertation which he was pre- paring for the press , intitled " A History ...
... excellent library , particularly a valuable collection of books in Northern literature , with which Johnson was often very busy . One day Mr. Wise read to us a dissertation which he was pre- paring for the press , intitled " A History ...
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... excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter . Mr. Langton remembers Johnson , when on a visit at Oxford , asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour , he ...
... excellent essays were written as hastily as an ordinary letter . Mr. Langton remembers Johnson , when on a visit at Oxford , asking him one evening how long it was till the post went out ; and on being told about half an hour , he ...
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... excellent work , or even referring to them ; because I should not know what to select , or , rather , what to omit . I shall , however , transcribe one , as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who believe in the ...
... excellent work , or even referring to them ; because I should not know what to select , or , rather , what to omit . I shall , however , transcribe one , as it shows how well he could state the arguments of those who believe in the ...
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7 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.
8 페이지 - Seven years, my Lord, have now passed since 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 favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.
9 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...
8 페이지 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could; and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
231 페이지 - Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.
196 페이지 - To be sure, he is a tree that cannot produce good fruit; he only bears crabs. But, sir, a tree that produces a great many crabs is better than a tree which produces only a few.
48 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.
97 페이지 - HONOURED MADAM, — The account which Miss [Porter] gives me of your health pierces my heart. God comfort and preserve you and save you, for the sake of Jesus Christ. " I would have Miss read to you from time to time the passion of our Saviour, and sometimes the sentences in the communion service, beginning — ' Come unto me, all ye that travel and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
51 페이지 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
5 페이지 - ... declare, that I make a total surrender of all my rights and privileges in the English language, as a free-born British subject, to the said Mr. Johnson, during the term of his dictatorship. Nay, more ; I will not only obey him like an old Roman, as my dictator, but, like a modern Roman, I will implicitly believe in him as my Pope, and hold him to be infallible while in the chair, but no longer. More than this he cannot well require ; for, I presume, that obedience can never be expected, when...