The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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Sivu 7
... never affociated with us in any of < our diverfions , except in the winter when the ice was firm , to be drawn along by a boy bare - footed . His < ambition to excel was great , though his application to books , as far as it appeared ...
... never affociated with us in any of < our diverfions , except in the winter when the ice was firm , to be drawn along by a boy bare - footed . His < ambition to excel was great , though his application to books , as far as it appeared ...
Sivu 8
... never forgot . I remember rehearfing to him eighteen verfes , which after a little paufe he repeated verbatim , except one epithet , which im- proved the line . 6 6 6 After a long abfence from Lichfield , when he re- turned I was ...
... never forgot . I remember rehearfing to him eighteen verfes , which after a little paufe he repeated verbatim , except one epithet , which im- proved the line . 6 6 6 After a long abfence from Lichfield , when he re- turned I was ...
Sivu 10
... of Johnson , which , though in fome degree concealed by a fcholar's gown , and that we know is never deemed the lefs honourable for being old , was fo apparent as to excite - excite pity in fome that faw and noticed him . ΤΟ THE LIFE OF.
... of Johnson , which , though in fome degree concealed by a fcholar's gown , and that we know is never deemed the lefs honourable for being old , was fo apparent as to excite - excite pity in fome that faw and noticed him . ΤΟ THE LIFE OF.
Sivu 16
... never to have applied himself to any particular study . A paf- fion for reading was his ruling paffion , and a prodi- gious memory his great talent : he read every book ⚫ almost indifferently , as they happened to come into his hands ...
... never to have applied himself to any particular study . A paf- fion for reading was his ruling paffion , and a prodi- gious memory his great talent : he read every book ⚫ almost indifferently , as they happened to come into his hands ...
Sivu 24
... never did more than once a day . ' C Zeal equal to this , and rifing in proportion to the oppofition it met with , did thefe pious fathers exercise during nine years that they remained in Abyffinia . Their fuccefs was various and ...
... never did more than once a day . ' C Zeal equal to this , and rifing in proportion to the oppofition it met with , did thefe pious fathers exercise during nine years that they remained in Abyffinia . Their fuccefs was various and ...
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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.