The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Murray, 1831 |
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... acquaintance lasted , periods equi- valent in the whole to about three - quarters of a year only1 fell under the personal notice of Boswell -- and thus has been left many a long hiatus - valde deflen- dus , but now , alas , quite ...
... acquaintance lasted , periods equi- valent in the whole to about three - quarters of a year only1 fell under the personal notice of Boswell -- and thus has been left many a long hiatus - valde deflen- dus , but now , alas , quite ...
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... acquaintances of Dr. Johnson . 11. The whole of a Poetical Review of the Charac- ter of Dr. Johnson , by John Courtenay , Esq . in 4to . But besides these printed materials , the editor has been favoured with many papers connected with ...
... acquaintances of Dr. Johnson . 11. The whole of a Poetical Review of the Charac- ter of Dr. Johnson , by John Courtenay , Esq . in 4to . But besides these printed materials , the editor has been favoured with many papers connected with ...
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... acquaintance with literary men and literary history is so extensive , and who , although not of the Johnsonian circle , became early in life acquainted with most of the survivors of that society , not only approved and encouraged the ...
... acquaintance with literary men and literary history is so extensive , and who , although not of the Johnsonian circle , became early in life acquainted with most of the survivors of that society , not only approved and encouraged the ...
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... acquaintance on all the notorieties of his time , and by the ostentatious ( but , in the main , laudable ) assi- duity with which he attended the exile Paoli and the low - born Johnson ! These were amiable , and , for us , fortunate ...
... acquaintance on all the notorieties of his time , and by the ostentatious ( but , in the main , laudable ) assi- duity with which he attended the exile Paoli and the low - born Johnson ! These were amiable , and , for us , fortunate ...
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... acquaintance , and his good - nature and conviviality with the lowest . describes society of all classes with the happiest dis- crimination . Even his foibles assisted his curiosity ; he was sometimes laughed at , but always well re ...
... acquaintance , and his good - nature and conviviality with the lowest . describes society of all classes with the happiest dis- crimination . Even his foibles assisted his curiosity ; he was sometimes laughed at , but always well re ...
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250 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.
428 페이지 - 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. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
250 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...
280 페이지 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
253 페이지 - Johnson having now explicitly avowed his opinion of Lord Chesterfield, did not refrain from expressing himself concerning that nobleman with pointed freedom: 'This man (said he) I thought had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!
379 페이지 - Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, he said, was the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours sooner than he wished to rise.
338 페이지 - No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail ; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned ;
38 페이지 - Law's Serious Call to a Holy Life,' expecting to find it a dull book (as such books generally are), and perhaps to laugh at it. But I found Law quite an overmatch for me ; and this was the first occasion of my thinking in earnest of religion, after I became capable of rational inquiry'.
298 페이지 - ESQ. ADMIRAL OF THE BLUE, FELL A MARTYR TO POLITICAL PERSECUTION, MARCH 14, IN THE YEAR, 1757 ; WHEN BRAVERY AND LOYALTY WERE INSUFFICIENT SECURITIES FOR THE LIFE AND HONOUR OF A NAVAL OFFICER.
461 페이지 - I thus, Sir, showed her the absurdity of the levelling doctrine. She has never liked me since. Sir, your levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves. They would all have some people under them; why not then have some people above them?