The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.G. Walker, 1820 |
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... obliged , " And most humble servant , " Dec. 30 , 1780 . " SAM . JOHNSON . " Being disappointed in my hopes of meeting Johnson this year , so that I could hear none of his admirable sayings , I shall compensate for this want by ...
... obliged , " And most humble servant , " Dec. 30 , 1780 . " SAM . JOHNSON . " Being disappointed in my hopes of meeting Johnson this year , so that I could hear none of his admirable sayings , I shall compensate for this want by ...
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... obliged to lay out ten pounds . " " When in good humour , he would talk of Iris own writings with a wonderful frankness and can- dour , and would even criticise them with the closest severity . One day , having read over one of his ...
... obliged to lay out ten pounds . " " When in good humour , he would talk of Iris own writings with a wonderful frankness and can- dour , and would even criticise them with the closest severity . One day , having read over one of his ...
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... obliged to you for having asked me this even- ing . Parr is a fair man . I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free controversy . It is remarkable how much of a man's life may pass without meeting with any instance of this ...
... obliged to you for having asked me this even- ing . Parr is a fair man . I do not know when I have had an occasion of such free controversy . It is remarkable how much of a man's life may pass without meeting with any instance of this ...
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... obliged literally to pray continually ; had the madness turned the opposite way , and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . " He apprehended that the delineation of oha- racters ...
... obliged literally to pray continually ; had the madness turned the opposite way , and the person thought it a crime ever to pray , it might not improbably have continued unobserved . " He apprehended that the delineation of oha- racters ...
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... History , from which a long quotation is to be inserted . If Mr. Nichols cannot easily find the book , Mr. Johnson will send it from Streatham . " 1 whose variety of literary inquiry and obliging dis- position , 38 [ 1781 . THE LIFE OF.
... History , from which a long quotation is to be inserted . If Mr. Nichols cannot easily find the book , Mr. Johnson will send it from Streatham . " 1 whose variety of literary inquiry and obliging dis- position , 38 [ 1781 . THE LIFE OF.
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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.