The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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... the rudeness of his behaviour , would frequently call him the great boy , which the father once overhearing , faid , you you call him the great boy , but take my THE LIFE OF It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn ...
... the rudeness of his behaviour , would frequently call him the great boy , which the father once overhearing , faid , you you call him the great boy , but take my THE LIFE OF It may feem a ridiculous attempt to trace the dawn ...
Sivu 12
... , to report them absent : Johnson could not endure this intrufion , and would frequently be filent , when the utterance of a word would have infured him from cen- fure ; fure ; and , farther to be revenged for being 12 THE LIFE OF.
... , to report them absent : Johnson could not endure this intrufion , and would frequently be filent , when the utterance of a word would have infured him from cen- fure ; fure ; and , farther to be revenged for being 12 THE LIFE OF.
Sivu 18
... frequent in- ftructions from the pulpit , with all the other means of religious and moral improvement , had their proper effect ; and though they left his natural temper much as they found it , they begat in his mind those senti- ments ...
... frequent in- ftructions from the pulpit , with all the other means of religious and moral improvement , had their proper effect ; and though they left his natural temper much as they found it , they begat in his mind those senti- ments ...
Sivu 22
... and fometimes it is not even correct . Thefe circumstan- ces , together with frequent miftakes and various orthography , would almost stagger our belief , but II that that we have the authority of Johnson himself to rely 22 THE LIFE OF.
... and fometimes it is not even correct . Thefe circumstan- ces , together with frequent miftakes and various orthography , would almost stagger our belief , but II that that we have the authority of Johnson himself to rely 22 THE LIFE OF.
Sivu 27
... , made a tender of affiftance to Cave , the editor , printer , and publisher of the Gentleman's Magazine ; a man of whom I fhall hereafter have 3 frequent frequent occafion to fpeak . The letter of Johnfor to DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 27.
... , made a tender of affiftance to Cave , the editor , printer , and publisher of the Gentleman's Magazine ; a man of whom I fhall hereafter have 3 frequent frequent occafion to fpeak . The letter of Johnfor to DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 27.
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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.