The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to the Hebrides. With additions and notes, by J.W. Croker, 1권1831 |
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... common prayer- book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went up stairs , leaving him to study it : but by [ The gossiping anecdotes of the Lichfield ladies are all ...
... common prayer- book into his hands , pointed to the collect for the day , and said , " Sam , you must get this by heart . " She went up stairs , leaving him to study it : but by [ The gossiping anecdotes of the Lichfield ladies are all ...
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... common in these days , to persons in much higher rank . She bought me a small silver cup and spoon , marked SAM . J. , lest if they had been marked S. J. , ( Sarah being her name ) , they should , upon her death , have been taken from ...
... common in these days , to persons in much higher rank . She bought me a small silver cup and spoon , marked SAM . J. , lest if they had been marked S. J. , ( Sarah being her name ) , they should , upon her death , have been taken from ...
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... common sports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , " how won- derfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . " Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly ob- served in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
... common sports ; and he once pleasantly remarked to me , " how won- derfully well he had contrived to be idle without them . " Lord Chesterfield , however , has justly ob- served in one of his letters , when earnestly cautioning a friend ...
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... common parts , was unwilling to let him return , and to make up for the loss he might sustain by his absence from school , became his instructor in the classics , and farther assisted him in his studies ; so [ In one of his journeys we ...
... common parts , was unwilling to let him return , and to make up for the loss he might sustain by his absence from school , became his instructor in the classics , and farther assisted him in his studies ; so [ In one of his journeys we ...
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... common thought : " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politicks ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the versification was truly ...
... common thought : " that the Muse had come to him in his sleep , and whispered , that it did not become him to write on such subjects as politicks ; he should confine himself to humbler themes : " but the versification was truly ...
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246 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.
470 페이지 - 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.
xxviii 페이지 - After my death I wish no other herald, No other speaker of my living actions, To keep mine honour from corruption, But such an honest chronicler as Griffith.
424 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...
246 페이지 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
375 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.
105 페이지 - O Thou whose power o'er moving worlds presides, Whose voice created, and whose wisdom guides, On darkling man in pure effulgence shine, And cheer the clouded mind with light divine. Tis thine alone to calm the pious breast, With silent confidence and holy rest : From thee, great God ! we spring, to thee we tend, Path, motive, guide, original, and end...
166 페이지 - Where then shall Hope and Fear their objects find? Must dull suspense corrupt the stagnant mind? Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
116 페이지 - Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power or hapless love ; Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more, Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep, undisturb'd, within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!
398 페이지 - Scotland«, which I used in the sense of being of that country: and, as if I had said that I had come away from it, or left it; retorted, »That, Sir, I find, is what a very great many of your countrymen cannot help«.