The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Sons, L. Davis, B. White and Son [and 35 others in London], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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Sivu 16
... read , became his own for ever , with all the advantages that a penetra- ting judgment and deep reflection could add to it . I have heard him repeat , with scarce a mistake of have 16 THE LIFE OF ber, 1729, when, as appears by a ...
... read , became his own for ever , with all the advantages that a penetra- ting judgment and deep reflection could add to it . I have heard him repeat , with scarce a mistake of have 16 THE LIFE OF ber, 1729, when, as appears by a ...
Sivu 33
... reflected on the means of improving it . His acquifitions at school and at the university , and the improvement he had made of his talents in the ftudy of the French and Italian languages , qualified him , in an eminent degree , for an ...
... reflected on the means of improving it . His acquifitions at school and at the university , and the improvement he had made of his talents in the ftudy of the French and Italian languages , qualified him , in an eminent degree , for an ...
Sivu 53
... reflection on them had made repofe defirable : on the contrary , that very reflection is known to have in- terrupted it . Johnson has told me , that whole nights have been spent by him and Savage in converfations of this kind , not ...
... reflection on them had made repofe defirable : on the contrary , that very reflection is known to have in- terrupted it . Johnson has told me , that whole nights have been spent by him and Savage in converfations of this kind , not ...
Sivu 54
... reflected with as little appro- bation on the hours he spent with Savage as on any period of his life . Doubtlefs there is in the example and converfation of fome men a power that fafcinates , and fufpends the operation of our own will ...
... reflected with as little appro- bation on the hours he spent with Savage as on any period of his life . Doubtlefs there is in the example and converfation of fome men a power that fafcinates , and fufpends the operation of our own will ...
Sivu 57
... reflection on that diftrefs , which by this time had brought his wife to town , and obliged her to par- ticipate in the inconveniences of a dwelling too ob- fcure to invite refort , and to be a witness of the diffi- culties with which ...
... reflection on that diftrefs , which by this time had brought his wife to town , and obliged her to par- ticipate in the inconveniences of a dwelling too ob- fcure to invite refort , and to be a witness of the diffi- culties with which ...
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Sivu 558 - The busy day, the peaceful night, Unfelt, uncounted, glided by ; His frame was firm, his powers were bright, Though now his eightieth year was nigh. " Then with no fiery throbbing pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Sivu 153 - ... nothing will supply the want of prudence; and that negligence and irregularity, long continued, will make knowledge useless, wit ridiculous, and genius contemptible.
Sivu 491 - ... some of the images being recollected, make an inaccurate auditor imagine, by the help of Caledonian bigotry, that he has formerly heard the whole.
Sivu 196 - Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live.
Sivu 34 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance.' I knew him very early : he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt.
Sivu 184 - Give yourself to be merry, for you degenerate from your Father if you find not yourself most able in wit and body to do any thing when you be most merry: but let your mirth be ever void of all scurrility and biting words to any man, for a wound given by a word is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is given with the sword.
Sivu 60 - They highly extol the man's learning and probity ; and will not be persuaded, that the university will make any difficulty of conferring such a favour upon a stranger, if he is recommended by the dean.
Sivu 433 - Clerkenwell, where the body is deposited, and give a token of her presence there, by a knock upon her coffin ; it was therefore determined to make this trial of the existence or veracity of the supposed spirit.
Sivu 168 - As to all those things which have been published under the titles of Essays, Remarks, Observations, &c. on Shakspeare, if you except some Critical Notes on Macbeth, given as a specimen of a projected edition, and written, as appears, by a man of parts and genius, the rest are absolutely below a serious notice.
Sivu 195 - Perhaps if skill could distant times explore, New Behns, new Durfeys, yet remain in store; Perhaps where Lear has rav'd, and Hamlet died, On flying cars new sorcerers may ride ; Perhaps (for who can guess th' effects of chance) Here Hunt may box, or Mahomet may dance.