Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the Rambler, Adventurer, & Idler, and of the Various Periodical Papers Which, in Imitation of the Writings of Steele and Addison, Have Been Published Between the Close of the Eighth Volume of the Spectator, and the Commencement of the Year 1809, 1권W. Suttaby, 1809 |
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Nathan Drake. PART II . ESSAY I. THE LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , in Staffordshire , on September the 7th , 1709. From his father , who was a native of Cubley in Derby- shire , and a bookseller ...
Nathan Drake. PART II . ESSAY I. THE LITERARY LIFE OF DR . JOHNSON . SAMUEL JOHNSON was born at Lichfield , in Staffordshire , on September the 7th , 1709. From his father , who was a native of Cubley in Derby- shire , and a bookseller ...
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... Johnson , and on the 31st of October , 1728 , they were both entered of Pembroke College : it is uncertain , however , notwithstanding a previous promise of support , whether Johnson received any pecuniary assist- ance from Mr. Corbet ...
... Johnson , and on the 31st of October , 1728 , they were both entered of Pembroke College : it is uncertain , however , notwithstanding a previous promise of support , whether Johnson received any pecuniary assist- ance from Mr. Corbet ...
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... Johnson's which was published ; his father , with an excusable vanity , having printed it at Lichfield without the consent of his son , and it afterwards appeared in a Poetical Miscellany at Oxford , in 1731. With this version Pope was ...
... Johnson's which was published ; his father , with an excusable vanity , having printed it at Lichfield without the consent of his son , and it afterwards appeared in a Poetical Miscellany at Oxford , in 1731. With this version Pope was ...
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... Johnson a man of literature , obtained from him some pe- riodical for insertion in a newspaper , of essays which he was proprietor ; these are , it is said , no longer in existence . After a residence of six months with Mr. Hec- tor ...
... Johnson a man of literature , obtained from him some pe- riodical for insertion in a newspaper , of essays which he was proprietor ; these are , it is said , no longer in existence . After a residence of six months with Mr. Hec- tor ...
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... Johnson has prefixed a preface , and a dedication in the name of his bookseller to John Warren , Esq . of Pembrokeshire . The produc- tion is remarkable on two accounts ; as the first prose composition of Johnson , and as containing a ...
... Johnson has prefixed a preface , and a dedication in the name of his bookseller to John Warren , Esq . of Pembrokeshire . The produc- tion is remarkable on two accounts ; as the first prose composition of Johnson , and as containing a ...
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Aaron Hill Addison admirable appeared beauty biographical booksellers Boswell Boswell's catalogue Cato's Letters celebrated character Cicero collection commenced composition contributed correct critical death defects degree diction Dictionary Dunciad edition elegant English English Language entituled essays excellence fame favour genius Gentleman's Magazine given honour humour Idler imagination imitation Isaac Bickerstaff Journal justly labour language Latin learning letter Lichfield likewise literary literature Lives London Lord Lord Chesterfield manner ment merit Milton mind moral nature never observes occasion occasionally octavo opinion original passage passion periodical papers perspicuous poem poetical poetry poets political Pope possess powers praise Preface printed production published racter Rambler Rasselas reader remarks Samuel Johnson satire satire of Juvenal says sentiments Shakspeare shew Sir John Hawkins soon specimens Spectator spirit Steele style taste Tatler thought tion translation volume writer written
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337 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, "SAM JOHNSON.
337 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. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which providence has enabled me to do for myself.
307 페이지 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
336 페이지 - When, upon some slight encouragement, I first visited your Lordship, I was overpowered, like the rest of mankind, by the enchantment...
404 페이지 - Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for any thing we allow them short of hanging.
336 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?
464 페이지 - I will not undertake to maintain against the concurrent and unvaried testimony of all ages, and of all nations. There is no people, rude or learned, among whom apparitions of the dead are not related and believed. This opinion, which perhaps prevails as far as human nature is diffused, could become universal only by its truth...
254 페이지 - I have laboured to refine our language to grammatical purity, and to clear it from colloquial barbarisms, licentious idioms, and irregular combinations. Something, perhaps, I have added to the elegance of its construction, and something to the harmony of its cadence.
307 페이지 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
338 페이지 - This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords.