The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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... say , that he never re- membered to have enjoyed the use of it . verterant , inde nati vermes odorem teterrimum exhalabant . Ita • viro incutiebat morbus horrorem , fterilitas minuebat affectum . • Vivebat infelix mulier odiofa marito ...
... say , that he never re- membered to have enjoyed the use of it . verterant , inde nati vermes odorem teterrimum exhalabant . Ita • viro incutiebat morbus horrorem , fterilitas minuebat affectum . • Vivebat infelix mulier odiofa marito ...
Sivu 63
... say he is not afraid of the ftricteft examination , though he is of fo long a journey , and will venture it if the • Dean thinks it neceffary , choosing rather to die upon the road , than to be ftarved to death in tranflating ' for ...
... say he is not afraid of the ftricteft examination , though he is of fo long a journey , and will venture it if the • Dean thinks it neceffary , choosing rather to die upon the road , than to be ftarved to death in tranflating ' for ...
Sivu 78
... say that they are both ironical , that they difplay neither learn- ing nor wit , and that in neither of them is there to be discovered a fingle ray of that brightness which beams fo ftrongly in the author's moral and po- litical effays ...
... say that they are both ironical , that they difplay neither learn- ing nor wit , and that in neither of them is there to be discovered a fingle ray of that brightness which beams fo ftrongly in the author's moral and po- litical effays ...
Sivu 80
... say than that they hated it . The truth is , that Johnfon's political prejudices were a mist that the eye of his judgment could not penetrate ! in all the measures of government he could fee nothing right ; nor could he be convinced ...
... say than that they hated it . The truth is , that Johnfon's political prejudices were a mist that the eye of his judgment could not penetrate ! in all the measures of government he could fee nothing right ; nor could he be convinced ...
Sivu 121
... say that which fhould ' make him applauded ; he never laid the business of the house to heart , being a vain and empty , though a witty man . ' The fubject of this important debate was a bill to restrain the use of fpirituous liquors ...
... say that which fhould ' make him applauded ; he never laid the business of the house to heart , being a vain and empty , though a witty man . ' The fubject of this important debate was a bill to restrain the use of fpirituous liquors ...
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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.