The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.Talboys & Wheeler, 1826 |
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الصفحة vi
... lived , whose company has been universally courted ; I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship be- tween us . If gratitude should be ...
... lived , whose company has been universally courted ; I am justified in availing myself of the usual privilege of a dedication , when I mention that there has been a long and uninterrupted friendship be- tween us . If gratitude should be ...
الصفحة xii
... lived to pe- ruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to im- prove , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which ...
... lived to pe- ruse it , and to give the strongest testimony to its fidelity ; but before a second edition , which he contributed to im- prove , could be finished , the world has been deprived of that most valuable man ; a loss of which ...
الصفحة 2
... lived toge- ther with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's cha- racter . His being appointed one of his executors ...
... lived toge- ther with companionable ease and familiarity ; nor had sir John Hawkins that nice perception which was necessary to mark the finer and less obvious parts of Johnson's cha- racter . His being appointed one of his executors ...
الصفحة 3
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
... lived in great intimacy with him . There is , in the British Museum , a letter from bishop Warburton to Dr. Birch , on the subject of biography ; which , though I am aware it may expose me to a charge of artfully raising the value of my ...
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... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
... lived . And he will be seen as he really was ; for I profess to write , not his panegyrick , which must be all praise , but his life ; which , great and good as he was , must not be supposed to be entirely perfect . To be as he was , is ...
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الصفحة 199 - The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labours, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the Publick should consider me as owing that to a Patron, which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.
الصفحة 362 - Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well ; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
الصفحة 167 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison...
الصفحة 228 - A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.
الصفحة 198 - I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door ; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties, of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance,* one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before. " The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.
الصفحة 198 - World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.
الصفحة 46 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope, that at least, my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. " He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy, yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party ; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him and he endured me.
الصفحة 147 - Somebody talked of happy moments for composition, and how a man can write at one time and not at another. "Nay," said Dr Johnson, "a man may write at any time if he will set himself doggedly to it.
الصفحة 307 - But however that might be, this speech was somewhat unlucky, for with that quickness of wit for which he was so remarkable, he seized the expression "come from Scotland...
الصفحة xv - Marmor Norfolciense ; or, an Essay on an Ancient Prophetical Inscription, in Monkish Rhyme, lately discovered near Lynne, in Norfolk, by Probus Britannicus...