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, 3권G. Cowie, 1824 |
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... Collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of ...
... Collections ; and various other small pieces ; but being a very modest man , never put his name to any thing . He shewed me a translation which he had made of Ovid's Epistles , very prettily done . There is a good engraved portrait of ...
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... Collection , and maintained , that though you could not find a palace like Dryden's " Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , " you had villages composed of very pretty houses ; and he mentioned particularly " The Spleen . " JOHNSON : " I think ...
... Collection , and maintained , that though you could not find a palace like Dryden's " Ode on St. Cecilia's Day , " you had villages composed of very pretty houses ; and he mentioned particularly " The Spleen . " JOHNSON : " I think ...
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... collected . Davies said they would not sell . Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise . Davies said of a well - known dramatick authour , that " he lived upon potted stories , and that he made his way as Hannibal did , by vinegar ; having ...
... collected . Davies said they would not sell . Dr. Johnson seemed to think otherwise . Davies said of a well - known dramatick authour , that " he lived upon potted stories , and that he made his way as Hannibal did , by vinegar ; having ...
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... collection a Scotch Highlander , a man of learning too , and who had seen the world , attesting , and at the same time giving his reasons for the authenticity of Fingal : " I have heard all that poem when I was young . ' " Have you ...
... collection a Scotch Highlander , a man of learning too , and who had seen the world , attesting , and at the same time giving his reasons for the authenticity of Fingal : " I have heard all that poem when I was young . ' " Have you ...
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... collection of medals would do credit to per- sons of greater opulence . [ Mr. Nathaniel Thomas , who was many years Editor of the St. James's Chronicle , died March 1 , 1795. M. ] your well - wishers , is in a feeble and Etat . 67. ] 85 ...
... collection of medals would do credit to per- sons of greater opulence . [ Mr. Nathaniel Thomas , who was many years Editor of the St. James's Chronicle , died March 1 , 1795. M. ] your well - wishers , is in a feeble and Etat . 67. ] 85 ...
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169 페이지 - WE were now treading that illustrious island, which was once the luminary of the Caledonian regions, whence savage clans and roving barbarians derived the benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion.
195 페이지 - Upon one occasion, when in company with some very grave men at Oxford, his toast was, " Here's to the next insurrection of the negroes in the West Indies.
174 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.
162 페이지 - Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
169 페이지 - 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. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us, indifferent and unmoved, over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. The man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
60 페이지 - And if Jack Wilkes should be there, what is that to me, Sir ? My dear friend, let us have no more of this. I am sorry to be angry with you ; but really it is treating me strangely to talk to me as if I could not meet any company whatever, occasionally.
90 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.
279 페이지 - From this pleasing subject, he, I know not how or why, made a sudden transition to one upon which he was a violent aggressor; for he said, " I am willing to love all mankind, except an American:" and his inflammable corruption bursting into horrid fire, he " breathed out threatenings and slaughter; " calling them, " Rascals — Robbers — Pirates;" and exclaiming, he'd
320 페이지 - Yet this man cut his own throat. The true strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
337 페이지 - Is not modesty natural ?" JOHNSON. " I cannot say, Sir, as we find no people quite in a state of nature ; but, I think, the more they are taught, the more modest they are. The French are a gross, ill-bred, untaught people : a lady there will spit on the floor and rub it with her foot. What I gained by being in France was, learning to be better satisfied with my own country.