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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... allowed to fuggeft , that the nature of the work in other refpects , as it confifts of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to afcertain with a I Scrupulous fcrupulous authenticity ...
... allowed to fuggeft , that the nature of the work in other refpects , as it confifts of innumerable detached particulars , all which , even the most minute , I have spared no pains to afcertain with a I Scrupulous fcrupulous authenticity ...
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... allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up . May there not be the fame difference between men who read as their taste prompts , and men who are confined in cells and colleges to ftated tasks ? That a man in Mr ...
... allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up . May there not be the fame difference between men who read as their taste prompts , and men who are confined in cells and colleges to ftated tasks ? That a man in Mr ...
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... allowed , was a fingular beginning of connubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus fhewed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnfon's life ; and in ...
... allowed , was a fingular beginning of connubial felicity ; but there is no doubt that Johnson , though he thus fhewed a manly firmness , proved a most affectionate and indulgent husband to the last moment of Mrs. Johnfon's life ; and in ...
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... allowed ten pounds for clothes and linen . He faid a man might live in a garret at eighteen - pence a week ; few people would inquire where he lodged ; and if they did , it was easy to fay , Sir , I am to be found at fuch a place . ' By ...
... allowed ten pounds for clothes and linen . He faid a man might live in a garret at eighteen - pence a week ; few people would inquire where he lodged ; and if they did , it was easy to fay , Sir , I am to be found at fuch a place . ' By ...
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... allowed it ) confist- ing in adapting Juvenal's fentiments to modern facts and perfons . It will , with those additions , very conveniently make five sheets . And fince the expence will be no more , I fhall contentedly infure it , as I ...
... allowed it ) confist- ing in adapting Juvenal's fentiments to modern facts and perfons . It will , with those additions , very conveniently make five sheets . And fince the expence will be no more , I fhall contentedly infure it , as I ...
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142 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.
142 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.
141 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.
225 페이지 - I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him. I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me.
243 페이지 - I put on a very grave countenance, and said to her, '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.
239 페이지 - Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
215 페이지 - The morality of an action depends on the motive from which we act. If I fling half a crown to a beggar with intention to break his head, and he picks it up and buys victuals with it, the physical effect is good; but, with respect to me, the action is very wrong.
141 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.
40 페이지 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration, to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes, his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.
11 페이지 - If the biographer writes from personal knowledge and makes haste to gratify the public curiosity, there is danger lest his interest, his fear, his gratitude or his tenderness, overpower his fidelity and tempt him to conceal if not to invent. There are many who think it an act of piety to hide the faults or failings of their friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their detection; we therefore see whole ranks of characters adorned with uniform panegyric and not to be known from one another...