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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... thing you want to be fatisfied in any fubject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Defmaiseaux , are indeed ftrange infipid creatures ; and yet I ...
... thing you want to be fatisfied in any fubject of Milton , and am extremely glad you intend to write his life . Almost all the life - writers we have had before Toland and Defmaiseaux , are indeed ftrange infipid creatures ; and yet I ...
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... things he faith are always of fome value . And other ancient authours have the fame phrase , nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am certain , that confidering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and ...
... things he faith are always of fome value . And other ancient authours have the fame phrase , nearly in the same sense . " Of one thing I am certain , that confidering how highly the small portion which we have of the table - talk and ...
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... thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was Poetry , whofe effence confifts not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the ftrength and glow of a fancy , to which all the ftores of nature and of art ftand in prompt administration ; and in an ...
... thing which Dr. Johnson wrote was Poetry , whofe effence confifts not in numbers , or in jingle , but in the ftrength and glow of a fancy , to which all the ftores of nature and of art ftand in prompt administration ; and in an ...
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... thing , as for neglecting to know it . He would ask a boy a queftion ; and if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without confidering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For inftance , he would call up a ...
... thing , as for neglecting to know it . He would ask a boy a queftion ; and if he did not answer it , he would beat him , without confidering whether he had an opportunity of knowing how to answer it . For inftance , he would call up a ...
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... thing that he either heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little paufe , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet ,, by which he improved the line . He never joined with the ...
... thing that he either heard or read . Mr. Hector remembers having recited to him eighteen verses , which , after a little paufe , he repeated verbatim , varying only one epithet ,, by which he improved the line . He never joined with the ...
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296 페이지 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
142 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?
239 페이지 - When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring• to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place.
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.
142 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.
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.
252 페이지 - I could not find words to express what I felt upon this unexpected and very great mark of his affectionate regard. Next day, Sunday, July 31, I told him I had been that morning at a meeting of the people called Quakers, where I had heard a woman preach. JOHNSON. " Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
1 페이지 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
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.