The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., 1권Macmillan, 1922 |
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... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious - all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
... common centre of union for the great , the accomplished , the learned , and the ingenious - all these qualities I can , in perfect confidence of not being accused of flattery , ascribe to you . If a man may indulge an honest pride , in ...
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... Common Prayer Book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went up stairs leaving him to study it : but by the time she had reached the second floor , she heard him ...
... Common Prayer Book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went up stairs leaving him to study it : but by the time she had reached the second floor , she heard him ...
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... common sports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , " how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . " Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
... common sports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , " how wonderfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . " Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly observed in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
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... common abilities . He had already given several proofs 1 He is said to be the original of the parson in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many ...
... common abilities . He had already given several proofs 1 He is said to be the original of the parson in Hogarth's Modern Midnight Conversation . See also Lives of the Poets , ( " Fenton . " ) 2 As was likewise the Bishop of Dromore many ...
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... common thought ; " That the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politics ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the versification was truly Virgilian ...
... common thought ; " That the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politics ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the versification was truly Virgilian ...
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186 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? 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,3 till I am known, and do not want it.
187 페이지 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
186 페이지 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
371 페이지 - Where Angels tremble while they gaze, He saw ; but blasted with excess of light. Closed his eyes in endless night. Behold, where Dryden's less presumptuous car, Wide o'er the fields of glory bear Two coursers of ethereal race, With necks in thunder clothed, and long-resounding pace.
142 페이지 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
186 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 favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before. " The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a...
191 페이지 - Sir, he was a scoundrel, and a coward : a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality ; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotchman to draw the trigger after his death...
348 페이지 - Here lies our good Edmund, whose genius was such, We scarcely can praise it, or blame it too much; Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
401 페이지 - Sir, they may talk of the King as they will; but he is the finest gentleman I have ever seen.
505 페이지 - Richardson used to say, that had he not known who Fielding was, he should have believed he was an ostler. Sir, there is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all