The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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... conduct throughout his future life , and made fo confpicuous a part of his character . He could not , at this early period of his life , diveft himfelf of an opinion , that poverty was difgraceful ; and was very fevere in his cenfures ...
... conduct throughout his future life , and made fo confpicuous a part of his character . He could not , at this early period of his life , diveft himfelf of an opinion , that poverty was difgraceful ; and was very fevere in his cenfures ...
Sivu 25
... conduct of these miffionaries in Abyffinia had been fuch as tended rather to exafperate than conciliate : they confidered themselves , not only figuratively , as the generals of Christ's church militant , and propa- gated their faith by ...
... conduct of these miffionaries in Abyffinia had been fuch as tended rather to exafperate than conciliate : they confidered themselves , not only figuratively , as the generals of Christ's church militant , and propa- gated their faith by ...
Sivu 70
... conducted with a great degree of that indignation and contempt of his adverfary , which is vifible in most of his writ- ings . This he did in two letters severally published in the Gentleman's Magazine for the months of March and ...
... conducted with a great degree of that indignation and contempt of his adverfary , which is vifible in most of his writ- ings . This he did in two letters severally published in the Gentleman's Magazine for the months of March and ...
Sivu 74
... conduct of a particular manager . But others looked on this new - erected theatre with an eye more penetrating : the merchants of London , then a grave fagacious body of men , found that it was a temptation to idleness and to pleasure ...
... conduct of a particular manager . But others looked on this new - erected theatre with an eye more penetrating : the merchants of London , then a grave fagacious body of men , found that it was a temptation to idleness and to pleasure ...
Sivu 80
... conduct of oppofition at this time , and by fuch futile arguments as the above were the filly people of three ... conducted on whig principles ; and I have heard him say , that during the whole course of it , the two parties were bidding ...
... conduct of oppofition at this time , and by fuch futile arguments as the above were the filly people of three ... conducted on whig principles ; and I have heard him say , that during the whole course of it , the two parties were bidding ...
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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.