The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.J. Buckland ... [and 39 others], 1787 - 602 sivua |
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Tulokset 1 - 5 kokonaismäärästä 78
Sivu 3
... young woman of the fame town fell in love with him , and upon his removal to Lichfield fol- lowed him , and took lodgings oppofite his houfe . Her paffion was not unknown to Mr. Johnfon , but he had no inclination to return it , till he ...
... young woman of the fame town fell in love with him , and upon his removal to Lichfield fol- lowed him , and took lodgings oppofite his houfe . Her paffion was not unknown to Mr. Johnfon , but he had no inclination to return it , till he ...
Sivu 9
... young Corbet could not brook fubmiffion to a man who seemed to be little more learned than himself , and that that having a father living , who was able to DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 9 but who, affecting to be thought allied to the ...
... young Corbet could not brook fubmiffion to a man who seemed to be little more learned than himself , and that that having a father living , who was able to DR . SAMUEL JOHNSON . 9 but who, affecting to be thought allied to the ...
Sivu 10
... young readers or idle perfons as the prefs now daily fends forth ; nor had nor had any bookfeller entertained in his mind the project of a circulating library : from hence it is evident , that his father , hav- ing no other means of ...
... young readers or idle perfons as the prefs now daily fends forth ; nor had nor had any bookfeller entertained in his mind the project of a circulating library : from hence it is evident , that his father , hav- ing no other means of ...
Sivu 12
... young gentleman of his college , named Meekes , whose exer- cifes he could not bear to hear commended ; and when- ever he declaimed or difputed in the hall , Johnson would retire to the fartheft corner thereof , that he might be out of ...
... young gentleman of his college , named Meekes , whose exer- cifes he could not bear to hear commended ; and when- ever he declaimed or difputed in the hall , Johnson would retire to the fartheft corner thereof , that he might be out of ...
Sivu 13
... young men in the college in hunting , as they called it , the fervitor , who was thus diligent in his duty ; and this they did with the noife of pots and candlesticks , finging to the tune of Chevy - chace , the words in that old ballad ...
... young men in the college in hunting , as they called it , the fervitor , who was thus diligent in his duty ; and this they did with the noife of pots and candlesticks , finging to the tune of Chevy - chace , the words in that old ballad ...
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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.