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, 2권Henry Baldwin, 1791 - 516페이지 |
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... merit of our own received from our ancestors , fhould not choice and free - will be kept unviolated ? Is land to be treated with more reverence than liberty ? —If this confideration fhould reftrain your father from difinheriting fome of ...
... merit of our own received from our ancestors , fhould not choice and free - will be kept unviolated ? Is land to be treated with more reverence than liberty ? —If this confideration fhould reftrain your father from difinheriting fome of ...
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... merit , have truly no name . The King , as the impartial father of his people , would never refufe to grant the privilege to those who deserved it . on 1776 . on that fubject any more than a lawyer 16 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
... merit , have truly no name . The King , as the impartial father of his people , would never refufe to grant the privilege to those who deserved it . on 1776 . on that fubject any more than a lawyer 16 THE LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON .
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... merit for though it is out of his power to fteal , yet he may all his life be a thief in his heart . So when a man has once become a Carthufian , he is obliged to continue fo , whether he chooses it or not . Their filence , too , is ...
... merit for though it is out of his power to fteal , yet he may all his life be a thief in his heart . So when a man has once become a Carthufian , he is obliged to continue fo , whether he chooses it or not . Their filence , too , is ...
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... merit had raised him- self from the station of a footman . Mr. Warton faid , he had published a little volume under the title of " The Mufe in Livery . " JOHNSON . " I doubt whether Dodfley's brother would thank a man who fhould write ...
... merit had raised him- self from the station of a footman . Mr. Warton faid , he had published a little volume under the title of " The Mufe in Livery . " JOHNSON . " I doubt whether Dodfley's brother would thank a man who fhould write ...
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... merit this lady had as an actress , or what was her figure , or her manner , I have not been informed : but , if we may believe Mr. Garrick , his old mafter's tafte in theatrical merit was by no means refined ; he was not an elegans ...
... merit this lady had as an actress , or what was her figure , or her manner , I have not been informed : but , if we may believe Mr. Garrick , his old mafter's tafte in theatrical merit was by no means refined ; he was not an elegans ...
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158 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.
350 페이지 - After all this it is surely superfluous to answer the question that has once been asked, whether Pope was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found?
155 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. That 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...
504 페이지 - tis all a cheat, Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit: Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.
384 페이지 - Biron they call him; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit; For every object that the one doth catch, The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
150 페이지 - Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
316 페이지 - The King said in council, that the magistrates had not done their duty, but that he would do his own; and a proclamation was published, directing us to keep our servants within doors, as the peace was now to be preserved by force. The soldiers were sent out to different parts, and the town is now at quiet.
233 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.
581 페이지 - So morbid was his temperament, that he never knew the natural joy of a free and vigorous use of his limbs : when he walked, it was like the struggling gait of one in fetters ; when he rode, he had no command or direction of his horse, but was carried as if in a balloon.
581 페이지 - He was steady and inflexible in maintaining the obligations of religion and morality ; both from a regard for the order of society and from a veneration for the Great Source of all order ; correct, nay stern in his taste ; hard to please, and easily offended...