The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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Sivu 16
... to him with whom he is compared : whatever he read , became his own for ever , with all the advantages that a penetra- ting judgment and deep reflection could add to it . I have heard him repeat , with scarce a mistake of have 4 ...
... to him with whom he is compared : whatever he read , became his own for ever , with all the advantages that a penetra- ting judgment and deep reflection could add to it . I have heard him repeat , with scarce a mistake of have 4 ...
Sivu 33
... reflected on the means of improving it . His acquifitions at school and at the university , and the improvement he had made of his talents in the study of the French and Italian languages , qualified him , in an eminent degree , for an ...
... reflected on the means of improving it . His acquifitions at school and at the university , and the improvement he had made of his talents in the study of the French and Italian languages , qualified him , in an eminent degree , for an ...
Sivu 53
... reflection on them had made repofe defirable : on the contrary , that very reflection is known to have in- terrupted it . Johnson has told me , that whole nights have been spent by him and Savage in converfations of this kind , not ...
... reflection on them had made repofe defirable : on the contrary , that very reflection is known to have in- terrupted it . Johnson has told me , that whole nights have been spent by him and Savage in converfations of this kind , not ...
Sivu 54
... reflected with as little appro- bation on the hours he spent with Savage as on any period of his life . Doubtless there is in the example and converfation of fome men a power that fafcinates , and fufpends the operation of our own will ...
... reflected with as little appro- bation on the hours he spent with Savage as on any period of his life . Doubtless there is in the example and converfation of fome men a power that fafcinates , and fufpends the operation of our own will ...
Sivu 57
... reflection on that distress , which by this time had brought his wife to town , and obliged her to par- ticipate in the inconveniences of a dwelling too ob- scure to invite refort , and to be a witness of the diffi- culties with which ...
... reflection on that distress , which by this time had brought his wife to town , and obliged her to par- ticipate in the inconveniences of a dwelling too ob- scure to invite refort , and to be a witness of the diffi- culties with which ...
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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.