The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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... said to have purfued , and what value he fet on the powers of me- mory , may be inferred from his character of the former of those perfons in his lives of the poets , of whom he thus speaks : C " He was remarkable for the power of ...
... said to have purfued , and what value he fet on the powers of me- mory , may be inferred from his character of the former of those perfons in his lives of the poets , of whom he thus speaks : C " He was remarkable for the power of ...
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... said , that the fairest hopes may be fruftrated by the want of that qua- lity , which Swift fomewhere calls an aldermanly virtue , difcretion , but is in truth , of greater effi- cacy in our intercourfe with mankind , than all fcience ...
... said , that the fairest hopes may be fruftrated by the want of that qua- lity , which Swift fomewhere calls an aldermanly virtue , difcretion , but is in truth , of greater effi- cacy in our intercourfe with mankind , than all fcience ...
Sivu 256
Sir John Hawkins. fhot from one of the Idlers , Johnson may be fairly said to have transfixed . The paffage is in a high degree ludicrous , and will , I am perfuaded , justify the infer- tion of it here at length . The author begins by ...
Sir John Hawkins. fhot from one of the Idlers , Johnson may be fairly said to have transfixed . The paffage is in a high degree ludicrous , and will , I am perfuaded , justify the infer- tion of it here at length . The author begins by ...
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... his head , as may be obferved in all the pictures of him , the reafon whereof was , that I Of this negro - fervant much has been said Y 4 he DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 327 to ferve this his laft mafter were not very apparent...
... his head , as may be obferved in all the pictures of him , the reafon whereof was , that I Of this negro - fervant much has been said Y 4 he DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 327 to ferve this his laft mafter were not very apparent...
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Sir John Hawkins. I Of this negro - fervant much has been said , by those who knew little or nothing of him , in justification of that partiality which Johnfon fhewed for him , and his neglect of his own neceffitous relations . The ...
Sir John Hawkins. I Of this negro - fervant much has been said , by those who knew little or nothing of him , in justification of that partiality which Johnfon fhewed for him , and his neglect of his own neceffitous relations . The ...
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Sivu 550 - 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 throbs of fiery pain, No cold gradations of decay, Death broke at once the vital chain, And freed his soul the nearest way.
Sivu 484 - I was born in the eighth climate, but seem to be framed and constellated unto all. I am no plant that will not prosper out of a garden. All places, all airs, make unto me one country ; I am in England everywhere, and under any meridian.
Sivu 198 - For we that live to please, must please to live. Then prompt no more the follies you decry, As tyrants doom their tools of guilt to die...
Sivu 289 - I have familiarized the terms of philosophy, by applying them to popular ideas, but have rarely admitted any word not authorized by former writers...
Sivu 360 - I look upon this as I did upon the Dictionary: it is all work, and my inducement to it is not love or desire of fame, but the want of money, which is the only motive to writing that I know of.
Sivu 342 - Have put their whole drama and epick to flight ; In satires, epistles, and odes, would they cope, Their numbers retreat before Dryden and Pope ; And Johnson, well arm'd like a hero of yore, Has beat forty French *, and will beat forty more...
Sivu 62 - ... but, unfortunately, he is not capable of receiving their bounty, which would make him happy for life...
Sivu 126 - Excursions of fancy, and flights of oratory, are indeed, pardonable in young men, but in no other; and it would surely contribute more, even to the purpose for which some gentlemen appear to speak, (that of depreciating the conduct of the...
Sivu 347 - Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Sivu 492 - That our ancestors, who first settled these colonies, were at the time of their emigration from the mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and immunities of free and natural-born subjects, within the realm of England.