Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: To which are Added Some Poems Never Before Printed, المجلد 1A. Strahan, 1788 - 424 من الصفحات |
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... my lamentations ? I fuppofe it is the condition of humanity to defign what never * Mifs Lucy Porter , daughter to Dr. Johnson's wife by a former husband . will will be done , and to hope what never will LETTERS TO AND FROM.
... my lamentations ? I fuppofe it is the condition of humanity to defign what never * Mifs Lucy Porter , daughter to Dr. Johnson's wife by a former husband . will will be done , and to hope what never will LETTERS TO AND FROM.
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... humanity , and in all has been com- monly that of , Dear Madam , Your , & c . LETTER VIII . To Mrs. THRAL E. DEAR MADAM , Oxford , March 24 , 1768 . You serve me very forrily . You may write every day to this place ; and yet I do not ...
... humanity , and in all has been com- monly that of , Dear Madam , Your , & c . LETTER VIII . To Mrs. THRAL E. DEAR MADAM , Oxford , March 24 , 1768 . You serve me very forrily . You may write every day to this place ; and yet I do not ...
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... human attention must be vain . From that focial defire of being valuable to each other , which produces kindnefs and officioufnefs , it proceeds , and muft proceed , that there is fome pleasure in being able to give pain . To roll the ...
... human attention must be vain . From that focial defire of being valuable to each other , which produces kindnefs and officioufnefs , it proceeds , and muft proceed , that there is fome pleasure in being able to give pain . To roll the ...
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... human labour , and human contrivance ; which , from the bridge on which I viewed it , paffed away on either fide , and lofes itself in diftant regions , uniting waters that nature had divided , and dividing lands which nature had united ...
... human labour , and human contrivance ; which , from the bridge on which I viewed it , paffed away on either fide , and lofes itself in diftant regions , uniting waters that nature had divided , and dividing lands which nature had united ...
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... human life ; two months , in which Nature exerts all her powers of benefaction , and graces the liberality of her hand by the ele- gance of her fmile ; two months , which , as Doodle fays , " you never faw before , " and which , as La ...
... human life ; two months , in which Nature exerts all her powers of benefaction , and graces the liberality of her hand by the ele- gance of her fmile ; two months , which , as Doodle fays , " you never faw before , " and which , as La ...
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Afhbourne againſt anſwer becauſe beſt Bofwell buſineſs dear lady DEAR MADAM DEAR SIR DEAREST MADAM defire dined dreffed elſe fafe faid fame fays feems feen fend fent fervant feven fhall fhew fide fince firſt fmall fome fomething fometimes foon forry ftill fuch fuffer fuppofe fure glad happineſs hear himſelf hope houfe houſe huſband iſland Johnſon kindneſs laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs LETTER Lichfield Lucy Lucy Porter Macleod mafter Mifs mind Miſs miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf never night ourſelves paffed perhaps pleafed pleaſed pleaſure poft poor praiſe preſent promiſes purpoſe Queeney Raarfa raiſe reaſon reft rock Saluſbury ſay ſee ſeen ſhall ſhe ſhould Skie ſmall ſome ſtay Streatham ſuppoſe talk tell theſe thing thoſe thought thouſand THRA THRALE to Dr Thurſday to-morrow told uſe vifit wiſh write yeſterday yourſelf
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الصفحة 148 - Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.
الصفحة 112 - Monboddo's, the Scotch Judge, who has lately written a strange book about the origin of language, in which he traces monkeys up to men, and says that in some countries the human species have tails like other beasts.
الصفحة 165 - Skie, we left it, as we thought, with a fair wind ; but a violent gust, which Bos. had a great mind to call a tempest, forced us into Col, an obscure island ; on which nulla campis Arbor aestiva recreatur aura.
الصفحة 129 - I sat down to take notes on a green bank, with a small stream running at my feet, in the midst of savage solitude, with mountains before me, and on either hand covered with heath. I looked around me, and wondered that I was not more affected, but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion...
الصفحة 275 - Poor Baretti ! do not quarrel with him ; to neglect him a little will be sufficient. He means only to be frank, and manly, and independent, and perhaps, as you say, a little wise. To be frank, he thinks, is to be cynical ; and to be independent is to be rude. Forgive him, dearest lady, the rather, because of his misbehaviour I am afraid he learned part of me.
الصفحة 132 - The return of my birth-day, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
الصفحة 41 - There has been a man here to-day to take a farm. After some talk he went to see the bull, and said that he had seen a bigger. Do you think he is likely to get the farm?' Ib. p. 43. 'Oct. 31, 1772. Our bulls and cows are all well; but we yet hate the man that had seen a bigger bull.
الصفحة 360 - As you have now little to do, I suppose you are pretty diligent at the Thraliana ; and a very curious collection posterity will find it. Do not remit the practice of writing down occurrences as they arise, of whatever kind, and be very punctual in annexing the dates. Chronology you know is the eye of history; and every man's life is of importance to himself!
الصفحة 176 - PERMEO terras ubi nuda rupes Saxeas miscet nebulis ruinas, Torva ubi rident steriles coloni Rura labores. Pervagor gentes hominum ferorum, Vita ubi nullo decorata cultu Squallet informis, tugurique fumis Fceda latescit.