The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With Critical Observations on His WorksDoig and Stirling, 1815 - 639페이지 |
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... thought not to be exhausted by the researches of which it has afforded the basis , but still likely to interest the public . In revising the Narrative for a new edition , an opportunity has been found of supplying several deficiencies ...
... thought not to be exhausted by the researches of which it has afforded the basis , but still likely to interest the public . In revising the Narrative for a new edition , an opportunity has been found of supplying several deficiencies ...
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... thought my disease derived from her family . " Annals , & c . p . 10 . * This healing gift is said to have been derived to the kings of England from Edward the Confessor , who per- formed the first cure of this kind . The last of our ...
... thought my disease derived from her family . " Annals , & c . p . 10 . * This healing gift is said to have been derived to the kings of England from Edward the Confessor , who per- formed the first cure of this kind . The last of our ...
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... thoughts ; though he seems not to have attained all the tranquillity and assurance in his practice of its duties that are so earnestly to be desired . His sentiments , upon points of abstract virtue would consider him ; " His appeal to ...
... thoughts ; though he seems not to have attained all the tranquillity and assurance in his practice of its duties that are so earnestly to be desired . His sentiments , upon points of abstract virtue would consider him ; " His appeal to ...
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... thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power , and all authority . " . He struggled for another year in this un- equal conflict , and professed a desire to prac- tise either the Civil or the Common ...
... thought to fight my way by my literature and my wit ; so I disregarded all power , and all authority . " . He struggled for another year in this un- equal conflict , and professed a desire to prac- tise either the Civil or the Common ...
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... thoughts of it sweetened the whole year . Molly was a beauty and a scholar , a wit and a whig , and she talked all in praise * He was the third son of the first Earl of Bristol , and having got the Aston estate by his wife , he assumed ...
... thoughts of it sweetened the whole year . Molly was a beauty and a scholar , a wit and a whig , and she talked all in praise * He was the third son of the first Earl of Bristol , and having got the Aston estate by his wife , he assumed ...
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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.