The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... late Dr. Swinfen , who was well known to your father , is desirous of succeeding her . She has been accustomed , by keeping a boarding - school , to the care of children , and I think is very likely to discharge her duty . She is in ...
... late Dr. Swinfen , who was well known to your father , is desirous of succeeding her . She has been accustomed , by keeping a boarding - school , to the care of children , and I think is very likely to discharge her duty . She is in ...
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... late too often passed in Scotland for Metaphysicks , ) he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : -Dr . John- son has remarked , that ' time toiled after him in vain . ' But I should apprehend , that this ...
... late too often passed in Scotland for Metaphysicks , ) he thus ventures to criticise one of the noblest lines in our language : -Dr . John- son has remarked , that ' time toiled after him in vain . ' But I should apprehend , that this ...
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... late Earl of Hopetoun . His Lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Mil- ton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man answered " An't please your Lordship , this is a very odd sort ...
... late Earl of Hopetoun . His Lordship observed one of his shepherds poring in the fields upon Mil- ton's " Paradise Lost ; " and having asked him what book it was , the man answered " An't please your Lordship , this is a very odd sort ...
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... late Lord Somerville , * who saw much both of great and brilliant life , told me , that he had dined in company with Pope , and that after dinner the little man , as he called him , drank his bottle of Burgundy , and was exceedingly gay ...
... late Lord Somerville , * who saw much both of great and brilliant life , told me , that he had dined in company with Pope , and that after dinner the little man , as he called him , drank his bottle of Burgundy , and was exceedingly gay ...
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... late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney , that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's ( then Mr. Doddington ) at Hammersmith . The Doctor happening to go out into the garden , Mr. Doddington observed to him , It gives ...
... late Mr. James Ralph told Lord Macartney , that he passed an evening with Dr. Young at Lord Melcombe's ( then Mr. Doddington ) at Hammersmith . The Doctor happening to go out into the garden , Mr. Doddington observed to him , It gives ...
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الصفحة 324 - tis all a cheat ; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay : To-morrow's falser than the former day ; Lies worse, and, while it says we shall be blest With some new joys, cuts off what we possessed.
الصفحة 100 - And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom ; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, and came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
الصفحة 104 - Biron they call him ; but a merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal : His eye begets occasion for his wit ; For every object that the one doth catch The other turns to a mirth-moving jest...
الصفحة 47 - My manhood, long misled by wandering fires, Follow'd false lights; and when their glimpse was gone, My pride struck out new sparkles of her own. Such was I, such by nature still I am; Be thine the glory, and be mine the shame. Good life be now my task; my doubts are done: What more could fright my faith, than Three in One?
الصفحة 48 - The reason of this general perusal, Addison has attempted to [find in] derive from the delight which the mind feels in the investigation of secrets. " His best actions are but [convenient] inability of wickedness. " When once he had engaged himself in disputation [matter], thoughts flowed in on either side. " The abyss of an un-ideal [emptiness] vacancy.
الصفحة 459 - He had a constitutional melancholy, the clouds of which darkened the brightness of his fancy, and gave a gloomy cast to his whole course of thinking: yet, though grave and awful in his deportment, when he thought it necessary or proper, he frequently indulged himself in pleasantry and sportive sallies. He was prone to superstition, but not to credulity. Though his imagination might incline him to a belief of the...
الصفحة 151 - Of every friendless name the friend. Yet still he fills affection's eye, Obscurely wise, and coarsely kind; Nor, letter'd arrogance, deny Thy praise to merit unrefin'd.
الصفحة 113 - Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound...
الصفحة 80 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow : Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command ; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to. set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
الصفحة 316 - We were well entertained and very happy at Dr. Novell's, where was a very agreeable company; and we drank "Church and King" after dinner, with true Tory cordiality.