The Works of Samuel Johnson, 10권L. Hansard & sons, 1810 |
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... Fortune threw him short of it in every other circumstance of life . He avoided making any , though perhaps reasonable , complaints of her dis- pensations , under which he had honour enough to be easy , without touching the favours she ...
... Fortune threw him short of it in every other circumstance of life . He avoided making any , though perhaps reasonable , complaints of her dis- pensations , under which he had honour enough to be easy , without touching the favours she ...
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... fortune is wanting to make a great name , that single exception can never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands ...
... fortune is wanting to make a great name , that single exception can never pass upon the best judges and most equitable observers of mankind ; and when the time comes for the world to spare their pity , we may justly enlarge our demands ...
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... fortune of the Stage , with the story of Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredi- bility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English History , at no great ...
... fortune of the Stage , with the story of Lady Jane Grey . It is not unlikely that his experience of the inefficacy and incredi- bility of a mythological tale might determine him to choose an action from English History , at no great ...
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... Fortune ; and wondered why he was suffered to be poor , when Addison was caressed and preferred ; nor would a very little have contented him ; for he estimated his wants at six hundred pounds a year . In his course of reading , it was ...
... Fortune ; and wondered why he was suffered to be poor , when Addison was caressed and preferred ; nor would a very little have contented him ; for he estimated his wants at six hundred pounds a year . In his course of reading , it was ...
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... , as a grand compounder ; whence it is inferred that he inherited a considerable fortune . * This appears by his " Adversaria , " printed in his works , edit , 1776 , 3 vols . C. In 1688 , the same year in which he was In ( 31 ) KING.
... , as a grand compounder ; whence it is inferred that he inherited a considerable fortune . * This appears by his " Adversaria , " printed in his works , edit , 1776 , 3 vols . C. In 1688 , the same year in which he was In ( 31 ) KING.
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acquaintance Addison afterwards appeared battle of Ramillies Beggar's Opera Cato censure character Congreve considered contempt conversation court criticism death declared Dryden duke earl elegant endeavoured esteem excellence expence favour Fenton fortune friends genius honour imagined Juba justly kind king William Kit-cat Club lady letter likewise lived London lord chamberlain lord Halifax Lord Tyrconnel mankind Matthew Prior ment mentioned merit mind nature neglect ness never observed occasion once opinion passion performance perhaps play pleased pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise Prior publick published Queen racter reason received regard remarkable reputation resentment Savage Savage's says seems seldom Sempronius sent shew shewn Sir Richard Sir Robert Walpole solicited sometimes spect Spectator Spence Steele supposed Syphax Tatler Theophilus Cibber thought Tickell tion told topicks tragedy Tyrconnel verses virtue Whig write written wrote
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279 페이지 - ... distress of circumstances: the last of these considerations wrings my very soul to think on. For a man of high spirit conscious of having (at least in one production) generally pleased the world, to be plagued and threatened by wretches that are low in every sense; to be forced to drink himself into pains of the body, in order to get rid of the pains of the mind is a misery.
197 페이지 - Looking tranquillity ! It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight ; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart. Give me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly speak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.
26 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. He had mingled with the gay world without exemption from its vices or its follies, but had never neglected the cultivation of his mind ; his belief of Revelation was unshaken ; his learning preserved his principles ; he grew first regular, and then...
26 페이지 - His studies had been so various, that I am not able to name a man of equal knowledge. His acquaintance with books was great ; and what he did not immediately know, he could at least tell where to find.
179 페이지 - He had infused into it much knowledge, and much thought ; had often polished it to elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity ; he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity.
402 페이지 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
106 페이지 - He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high The price of knowledge, taught us how to die — 1672-1719 DEATH AND CHARACTER 347 in which he alludes, as he told Dr.
197 페이지 - He has in these little pieces neither elevation of fancy, selection of language, nor skill in versification : yet, if I were required to select from the whole mass of English poetry the most poetical paragraph, I know not what I could prefer to an exclamation in The Mourning Bride : ALMERIA.
363 페이지 - On a bulk, in a cellar, or in a glass-house, among thieves and beggars, was to be found the author of The Wanderer, the man of exalted sentiments, extensive views, and curious observations ; the man whose remarks on life might have assisted the statesman, whose ideas of virtue might have enlightened the moralist, whose eloquence might have influenced senates, and whose delicacy might have polished courts.
110 페이지 - Button had been a servant in the Countess of Warwick's family, who, under the patronage of Addison, kept a coffee-house on the south side of Russell Street, about two doors from Covent Garden. Here it was that the wits of that time used to assemble.