The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His WorksDoig and Stirling, 1815 - 639페이지 |
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... say , foolish in talking of his children . " He always seemed mortified at the recollection of the bustle his father made to exhibit him as a prodigy of early understanding . " That , " said he to Mrs Piozzi , " is the great misery of ...
... say , foolish in talking of his children . " He always seemed mortified at the recollection of the bustle his father made to exhibit him as a prodigy of early understanding . " That , " said he to Mrs Piozzi , " is the great misery of ...
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... say , that he never remem- bered to have enjoyed the use . " The dog , " said he , " never was good for any thing ... says , * His countenance was not so harsh and rugged as has been misrepresented , and no otherwise disfigured by the ...
... say , that he never remem- bered to have enjoyed the use . " The dog , " said he , " never was good for any thing ... says , * His countenance was not so harsh and rugged as has been misrepresented , and no otherwise disfigured by the ...
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... says Mr Boswell , upon the authority of Dr Taylor , " he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . " He was accordingly entered a commoner at Pembroke College , Oxford , October 31 , 1728 , being then in 22 THE LIFE OF.
... says Mr Boswell , upon the authority of Dr Taylor , " he never received any assistance whatever from that gentleman . " He was accordingly entered a commoner at Pembroke College , Oxford , October 31 , 1728 , being then in 22 THE LIFE OF.
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... say no more or less than what you will see he says in his Advertisement to the Reader . " A few days before her death , 1756 , he writes to her , " I have returned your Law ; which , however , I earnestly intreat you to give me ...
... say no more or less than what you will see he says in his Advertisement to the Reader . " A few days before her death , 1756 , he writes to her , " I have returned your Law ; which , however , I earnestly intreat you to give me ...
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... says Bishop Percy , 66 lounging at the college gate , with a circle of young students round him , whom he was entertaining with wit , and keeping from their studies , if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the college discipline ...
... says Bishop Percy , 66 lounging at the college gate , with a circle of young students round him , whom he was entertaining with wit , and keeping from their studies , if not spiriting them up to rebellion against the college discipline ...
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509 페이지 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
296 페이지 - How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
568 페이지 - His fall was destined to a barren strand, A petty fortress, and a dubious hand ; He left the name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.
210 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.
209 페이지 - My Lord, I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an...
97 페이지 - Then, sir, you have exceeded Demosthenes himself; for to say that you have exceeded Francis's Demosthenes would be saying nothing." The rest of the company bestowed lavish encomiums on Johnson; one, in particular, praised his impartiality ; observing that he dealt out reason and eloquence with an equal hand to both parties. " That is not quite true," said Johnson ; " I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
570 페이지 - For love, which scarce collective man can fill; For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill; For faith, that, panting for a happier seat. Counts death kind Nature's signal of retreat. These goods for man the laws of Heaven ordain, These goods He grants, who grants the power to gain ; With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind, And makes the happiness she does not find.
287 페이지 - ... and knees of his breeches were loose, his black worsted stockings ill drawn up ; and he had a pair of unbuckled shoes by way of slippers. But all these slovenly particularities were forgotten the moment that he began to talk.
95 페이지 - It has been confidently related, with many embellishments, that Johnson one day knocked Osborne down in his shop, with a folio, and put his foot upon his neck. The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. "Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him. But it was not in his shop: it was in my own chamber.
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.