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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... several of my remarks upon his work . But though I would not " war with the dead " offenfively , I think it necessary to be strenuous in defence of my illuftrious friend , which I cannot be , without ftrong animadver- fion upon a writer ...
... several of my remarks upon his work . But though I would not " war with the dead " offenfively , I think it necessary to be strenuous in defence of my illuftrious friend , which I cannot be , without ftrong animadver- fion upon a writer ...
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... several leaves from Ofborne's Harleian Catalogue , and thofe not compiled by Johnson , but by Oldys ) a very small part of it relates to the person who is the fubject of the book ; and , in that , there is fuch an inaccuracy in the ...
... several leaves from Ofborne's Harleian Catalogue , and thofe not compiled by Johnson , but by Oldys ) a very small part of it relates to the person who is the fubject of the book ; and , in that , there is fuch an inaccuracy in the ...
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... several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was , he might have been almost entirely preferved . As it is , I will venture to fay that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who ...
... several stages of his life . Had his other friends been as diligent and ardent as I was , he might have been almost entirely preferved . As it is , I will venture to fay that he will be seen in this work more completely than any man who ...
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... several people . His daughter , Mrs. Defmoulins , who was many years humanely supported in Dr. Johnson's houfe in London , told me , that upon his discovering that Dr. Swinfen had communicated his cafe , he was fo much offended , that ...
... several people . His daughter , Mrs. Defmoulins , who was many years humanely supported in Dr. Johnson's houfe in London , told me , that upon his discovering that Dr. Swinfen had communicated his cafe , he was fo much offended , that ...
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... Several of them had travelled . They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one another's names . It used to coft the reft a fhilling , for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for fix - pence , and bread for a penny , and ...
... Several of them had travelled . They expected to meet every day ; but did not know one another's names . It used to coft the reft a fhilling , for they drank wine ; but I had a cut of meat for fix - pence , and bread for a penny , and ...
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36 페이지 - He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
243 페이지 - One day when I was at her house, 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.
225 페이지 - I was dressed and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
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.
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.
2 페이지 - If a life be delayed till interest and envy are at an end, we may hope for impartiality, but must expect little intelligence ; for the incidents which give excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanescent kind, such as soon escape the memory, and are rarely transmitted by tradition.
257 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, narrowed his mind, And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.
68 페이지 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity, and will not be persuaded that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the Dean.